Ecological Disasters (Man-made)
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Lawns
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn by Ted Steinberg
The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession by Virginia Scott Jenkins
Memoirs
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch by Dan O’Brien
The Forester’s Log: Musings from the Woods by Mary Stuever
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land by John Graves
Nature’s Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm – Steven I. Apfelbaum
The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Zumwalt by Marcy Houle
Natural History
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E.C. Pielou
The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers – Richard V. Francaviglia
The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa by Cornelia F. Mutel
Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild by Michael Forsberg
Looking for Longleaf: The Rise and Fall of an American Forest by Lawrence S. Early.
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Paul Gruchow
Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
Grass Roots: The Universe of Home
Journal of a Prairie Year
The Necessity of Empty Places
Prairies
Prairie Time by Matt White (concerns conservation of the critically endangered Blackland Prairie of Texas)
Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson
Wildland Fire & Major U.S. Fires
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57 by John N. Maclean
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean
The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal by John N. Maclean
The Roaming Ecologist 