Wild Reads: Recommended reading from the staff of Campaign for America's Wilderness

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The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage through the Wilderness Act -- Doug Scott

Historical and Philosophical
Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire -- Marybeth Lorbiecki
Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work -- Curt Meine
A Story That Stands Like A Dam-Russell Martin
A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement -- Mark W. T. Harvey
A Wilderness Original: The Life of Bob Marshall -- James M. Glover
Battle for the Wilderness*-- Michael Frome
Beyond Geography -- Frederick Turner
California Desert Miracle: The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness -- Frank Wheat
Coyotes And Town Dogs-Susan Zakin
John Muir and His Legacy -- Stephen Fox
John Muir and the Sierra Club: The American Conservation Movement -- Stephen Fox
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-Annie Dillard
Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History -- Richard West Sellars
The Great New Wilderness Debate-Edited by J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson
The Idea of Wilderness-- Max Oelschlaeger
The Politics of Wilderness Preservation-- Craig Allin
The Sierra Club's Biennial Wilderness Conference Selections*
Wilderness In A Changing World-Edited by Bruce Kilgore
Wilderness and the Quality of Life-Edited by Maxine McCloskey and James P. Gilligan
Tomorrow's Wilderness-Edited by Francois Leydet
Wildlands In Our Civilization-Edited by David Brower
The Sound of Mountain Water-Wallace Stegner
Troubled Waters-Kevin Proescholdt, Rip Rapson, and Miron Heinselman
Wilderness and the American Mind-- Roderick Nash

Scientific
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest -- Elliott A. Norse
From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America 1500-Present --Gordon G. Whitney
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology in Our Own Back Yards-Sara Stein
Silent Spring -- Rachel Carson
The End of Nature-Bill McKibben

Wild Economics
Post-Cowboy Economics : Pay and Prosperity in the New American West -- Thomas Michael Power and Richard Barrett
Plundered Promise : Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands -- Richard W. Behan
Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development -- Herman E. Daly

General Background
America's Wilderness -- Buck Tilton
A Sand County Almanac -- Aldo Leopold
Reinventing Nature -- Michael Soulé and Gary Lease
The Abstract Wild -- Jack Turner
The Big Outside* -- Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke
The Singing Wilderness -- Sigurd Olson

Literature
A River Runs Through It --Norman MacLean
Coming Into the Country --John McPhee
Desert Solitaire -- Edward Abbey
Double Whammy-Carl Hiaasen
Into The Wild-John Krakauer
Jedediah Smith-Dale Morgan
Refuge -- Terry Tempest Williams
Return of the Wild -- Ted Kerasote
Sick Puppy-Carl Hiaasen
The Big Sky -- A.B. Guthrie
The Education of Little Tree-Forrest Carter
The Monkey Wrench Gang-Edward Abbey
The Road Home-Jim Harrison
The River Why-David James Duncan
Two in the Far North-- Mardy Murie
Where The Sea Breaks Its Back-Corey Ford

Children and Young Adults
Aani and the Tree Huggers-Jeannine Atkins and Venantius J. Pinto
A Salmon For Simon-Betty Waterton and Ann Blades
Canyon Winter-Walt Morey
Fighting For The Forest-Gloria Rand and Ted Rand
Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles-Kathryn Laskey and Christopher G. Knight
Once A Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Brought Back The Gray Wolf-Steven R. Swinburne and Jim Brandenburg
River-Debbie Atwell
The Earth Is My Mother-Bev Doolittle with Elise Maclay
The Lorax-Dr. Suess
The Sacred Redwood Forest-Dror Shai Levi
The Talking Earth-Jean Craighead George
Where Once There Was Wood-Denise Fleming

*Publications with an asterisk are out of print; look for them at a used book dealer