Bangor Land Trust Programs Committee
​Book Recommendations
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Grace Bartlett recommends:
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Field Guide to the New England Summits by Nancy G. Slack and Alison W. Bell
Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies by Sara Lewis
Super Storm: Nice Days Inside Hurrican Sandy by Kathryn Miles
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich
Granite, Fire and Fog (about Mount Desert Island) by Tom Wessels

Donne Sinderson recommends:
Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd
Summer to Fall: Notes and Numina from the Maine Woods by Dana Wilde
Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England by Mary Holland
Wild Plants of Maine: A Useful Guide by Tom Seymour
The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot
Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer