Conservation Reading List

Recommended Books for Conservation-Minded Readers

The Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold (1949)

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West – Wallace Stegner (1954)

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson (1962)

Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey (1968)

The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey (1975)

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir – Donald Worster (2008)

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World – Andrea Wulf (2015)

Coyote America – Dan Flores (2016)

The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt and His Adventures in the Wilderness – Darrin Lunde (2016)

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks – Terry Tempest Williams (2016)