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Recommended Resources:

Books

Conferences & Continuing Education

Habitat Restoration Sites to Visit

Native Plant Gardens to Visit

Native Plant Nursery

Societies & Organizations

Book List

The Man of the Trees - Richard St. Barbe Baker
Insects and Gardens – Eric Grissell
Siftngs - Jens Jensen
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
Design With Nature - Ian McHarg
Stalking the Wild Amaranth - Janet Marinelli
Second Nature - Michael Pollan
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - Janisse Ray
Ecological Design - Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
Restoring Streams in Cities - Ann L. Riley
American Plant for American Gardens – Edith A. Roberts and Elsa Rehmann
The Once and Future Forest - Leslie Jones Sauer
A Handmade Wilderness - Don Schueler
Noah's Garden - Sara Stein
Miracle Under the Oaks - William K. Stevens
The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki
Reading the Forested Landscape - Tom Wessels
Bringing Nature Home - Dr. Douglas Tallamy
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land - Janisse Ray
Flat Rock Journal - Ken Carey

Conferences & Continuing Education

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve - New Hope, PA http://www.bhwp.org
Cook College - Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ http://cpe.rutgers.edu
Cullowhee Native Plant Conference - Cullowhee, NC -www.wcu.edu/5033.asp
Delaware Nature Society – Hockessin, DE www.delawarenaturesociety.org
Humboldt Field Research Center at Eagle Hill - Steuben, ME www.eaglehill.us
Irvine Native Plant Conference - Stevenson, MD www.explorenature.org
Lahr Symposium U.S. National Arboretum - Washington, D.C. www.usna.usda.gov/Education/17lahr
Millersville Native Plant Conference - Millersville, PA www.millersvillenativeplants.org
New Directions in the American Landscape Annual Symposiums
Orion Society's Conferences www.orionsociety.org
Orion Grassroots Network Professional Training Package www.orionsociety.org
Society of Ecological Restoration Annual Conference www.ser.org

Habitat Restoration Sites to Visit

Central Park - New York, NY
The Crosby Arboretum - Picayune, Mississippi
Fairmount Park - Philadelphia, PA
Littitz Run - Littitz, PA
Manitoga - Garrison, NY
Paper Mill Run at the Morris Arboretum - Philadelphia, PA
The Wildflower Center - Austin, Texas

Native Plant Gardens to Visit

Bowmans Hill Wildflower Preserve – New Hope, PA
Garden in the Woods - Framingham, MA
Longwood Garden Pierces Woods – Kennett Square, PA
Mt. Cuba Center – Greenville, DE

Native Plant Nursery

Redbud Native Plant Nursery
1214 North Middletown Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342
610-358-4300 voice
610-358-3330 fax
www.redbudnativeplantnursery.com

Societies and Organizations

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay www.acb-online.org/project.cfm?vid=85
Audubon Society www.audubon.org
Bioneers www.bioneers.org
Brandywine Conservancy Environmental Management Center www.brandywineconservancy.org
Evergreen www.evergreen.ca/en/index.html
Habitat Resource Network of Southeast Pennsylvania www.habitatresourcenetwork.org/aboutus.html
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center www.wildflower.org
National Wildlife Center www.nwf.org
Natural Lands Trust www.natlands.org
New England Wildflower Society www.newfs.org
North American Land Trust conserveland.org/landtrust/one?conservancy_id=4239
Orion Society www.orionsociety.org
Pennsylvania Wildlands Recovery Project www.wildpennsylvania.org
Philadelphia Botanical Club www.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club
Plant Conservation Alliance www.nps.gov/plants/index.htm
Restore: The North Woods www.restore.org
The Nature Conservancy http://nature.org
Society of Ecological Restoration www.ser.org
Sustainable Business Network www.sbnphiladelphia.org
Trees for Life www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.eco.html
Wildlife Habitat Council www.wildlifehc.org
Wildlands Project www.twp.org
The Wild Ones www.for-wild.org


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