Natural History of Louisiana:  A Selected Bibliography 
Compiled by Bob Thomas, Loyola University New Orleans
Version 4-24-18 with additions by C. Paxton . Last update  9/28/21

 
PREFACE:  The following list of references on natural history focus on the Louisiana region, thus it includes identification guides from nearby states.  Except for vertebrates, identification of natural objects and species often requires the use of numerous publications since the more specious groups are not all figured or keyed in single volumes.  These books are excellent and should give the naturalist correct answers or clues to the identities of specimens, thus allowing well-grounded, educated opinions or an entrée to the effective use of references found on the internet.

Many of the books on this list are no longer in print.  Many of them may be found using sites that locate and notify a person of their availability.  A selection of proven sources are:
  ·      Amazon.com
  ·      Abe Books:  abebooks.com
  ·      Bookfinder.com
  ·      Powells Books:  powells.com
  ·      AddAll Used and Out of Print Search:  used.addall.com

Although few are cited, it should be noted that the small Golden Guides are often excellent resources, as are the many different field guide series that seem to be ever expanding.  

TABLE OF CONTENTS TOPICS:

• Amphibian & Reptiles
• Astronomy
• Birds
• Bryophytes
• Building New Orleans
• Culture:  Stories of Coastal Life
• Disasters (Hurricanes, Floods, Oil Spills/Blowouts, etc.)
• Edible Plants & Herbal Medicines
• Fish
• Fungi, especially Mushrooms
• Gardening & Attracting Wildlife
• Geography & Ecosystems
• Geology
• Glass & Stones, Beach
• Gulf of Mexico
• Insects
• Invertebrates, Freshwater
• Invertebrates, Marine
• Lichens
• Mammals
• Microbes
• Miscellaneous
• Mollusks
• Mosses
• Native Americans
• Natural History (General)
• Naturalists in Louisiana & the History of their Activity
• Nature Education
• Plants
• Pontchartrain, Lake
• Recreation & Adventuring
• Reptiles (see Amphibians & Reptiles above)
• Seashore (see Gulf of Mexico above)
• Soil
• Spiders
• Tree of Life
• Wetlands
• Winter Ecology

AMPHIBIANS & REPTILES

Boundy, Jeff.  2006.  Snakes of Louisiana.  Louisiana Dept. of Wild. & Fish., Baton Rouge.  40 pp.
__________ and John L. Carr.  2017.  Amphibians & Reptiles of Louisiana.  An Identification and Reference Guide.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  386 pp.
Clarke, Dr. Barry.  1993.  Eyewitness Books.  Amphibian.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Conant, Roger and Joseph T. Collins.  1998.  A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America.  3rd, expanded ed.  Houghton-Mifflin, Boston.
Coulson, Roland and Thomas Hernandez.  1964.  Biochemistry of the Alligator.  A study of Metabolism in Slow Motion. Louisiana St. Univ.  Press, Baton Rouge.  138 pp.
__________ and __________.  1983.  Alligator Metabolism.  Studies on Chemical reactions in vivo.,  Permagon Press, New York.    182 pp.
Dinets, Vladimir.  2013.  A Naturalist's Quest.  Dragon Songs.  Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and other Dinosaur Relations.  Arcade Publ., New York.  318 pp.
Duellman, William E. And Linda Trueb.  1986.  Biology of Amphibians.  McGraw-Hill, New York.   670 pp.
Dundee, Harold A. and Douglas A. Rossman.  1989.  The amphibians and reptiles of Louisiana.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  295 pp.
Fuller, D. A., A. M. Tappan, and M. C. Hester.  1987.  Sea turtles in Louisiana's coastal waters.  LA Sea Grant Coll. Prog.  39pp.
Greene, H. W.  1997.  Snakes.  The Mystery of Nature.  Univ. California Press, Berkeley.
Keiser, Edmund D. and Larry David Wilson.  1979.  Checklist and key to the amphibians and reptiles of Louisiana.  Lafayette Nat. Hist. Mus. Bull. (1):1-49.
Lindeman, Peter V.  2013.  The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas.  Univ. Oklahoma Press, Norman.  460 pp.
Lockwood, C. C.  2002.  The Alligator Book.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  130 pp.
McIlhenny, Edward Avery.  1935.  The Alligator's Life History.  Christopher Publ. House, Boston (reprinted by Soc. Study Amphibians Reptiles).  117 pp.
Ouchley, Kelby.  2013.  American Alligator.  Ancient Predator in the Modern World.  Univ. Press Florida, Gainesville.  138 pp.
Petranka, James W.   1998.  Salamanders of the United States and Canada.  Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC.
Pough, F. Harvey, R. M. Andrews, J. E. Cadle, M. L. Crump, A. H. Savitzky, and K. D. Wells.  2004.  Herpetology.  3rd ed.  Prentice-Hall.
Powell, Robert, Roger Conant, and Joseph T. Collins.  2016.  Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America.  4th edition.  Houghton-Mifflin, Boston.  493 pp.
Smith, Hobart M.  1978.  A Guide to Field Identification.  Amphibians of North America.  Golden Press, New York.
Stebbins, Robert C.  1985.  A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians.  2nd ed.  Houghton-Mifflin, Boston.
Stebbins, Robert C. and Nathan W. Cohen.  1995.  A Natural History of Amphibians.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
Thomas, Robert A. 2022. Louisiana's bold plan to use scientific knowledge of the natural history of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) to save it from possible extinction.  Occas. Pap. Loyola Ctr. Enviro. Comm. (5): 1-7.
Tkaczyk, Filip.  2015.  Tracks & Sign of Reptiles & Amphibians.  A Guide to North American Species.  Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.  468 pp.
Trauth, Stanley E., Henry W. Robison, and Michael V. Plummer.  2004.  The Amphibians and Reptiles of  Arkansas.  Univ. Arkansas Press, Fayetteville.  421 pp.
Wells, Kentwood D.  2007.  The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians.  Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.  1148 pp.
Zug, George R., Laurie Vitt and Janalee Caldwell.  2001.  Herpetology.  An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles.  2nd ed.  Academic Press, New York.  630 pp.

AMPHIBIAN WEBSITES

Organizations:

            American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (asih.org)
            Center for North American Herpetology (cnah.org)
            Herpetologists’ League (herpetologistsleague.org)
            Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (ssarherps.org)            
            Louisiana Gulf Coast Herpetologocal Society

Amphibian Issues:

• North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (www.pwrc.usgs.gov/naamp/)

• Declining Amphibian Population Task Force (ice.ucdavis.edu/project/daptf)
• North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations (http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt/community/amphibian_malformations/386)

WEBSITES AND OTHER:

• Venomous Snakes of the Southeastern U.S.
  Louisiana Amphibian and Reptiles Enthusiasts - facebook site
  
  

DIGITAL:

USGS.  Louisiana Amphibian Monitoring Program Training CD for 2008. 

The Biodiversity Library
https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/

PHOTO SITES:

Beck, James. http://herpsoflouisiana.shutterfly.com/,  http://venomousphotography.shutterfly.com/ 

            http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?wherephotographer=James+W.+Beck&orderby=taxon

ASTRONOMY

Chartrand, Mark R., III.  1982.  Skyguide.  A Field Guide for Amateur Astronomers.  Golden Press, New York.  280 pp.  0-307-13667-1.
Pasachoff, Jay M.  2000.  Stars and Planets.  Peterson Field Guides.  Houghton-Miflin, New York.  578 pp.
Schaefer, Vincent J. and John A. Day.  1981.  A Field Guide to the Atmosphere.  Peterson Field Guides.  Houghton-Miflin, New York.  359 pp.

BIRDS

Anonymous.  No date.  Birding Tour of Southwest Louisiana.  Louisiana Office of tourism, Baton Rouge.  
Arthur, Stanley Cliby.  1931.  The Birds of Louisiana.  Bull. Louisiana Dept. Conserv. 20: 1-598.
Baicich, Paul J. and Colin J. O. Harrison.  1997.  A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds.  2nd ed.  Academic Press Natural World, New York.    347 pp.
Barrow, Wylie G., Jr. and Bill Fontenot.  2006.  Vanishing Before Our Eyes.  Louisiana Cheniere Woods and the Birds that Depend on Them. Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.  25 pp.
Beadle, David and James Rising.  2002.  Sparrows of the United States and Canada.  The Photographic Guide.  Academic Press Natural World, New York.   328 pp.
Bird Study Group, Shreveport Society for Nature Study, Inc..  2004.  Birding Hotspots of Northwestern Louisiana. 2nd ed.  54 pp.
Brinkley, Edward S.  2007.  National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America.  Sterling, New York.  529 pp.

Bull, John and John Farrand, Jr.  1977.  The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds.  Eastern Region.  Alfred A. Knopf.  0-394-41405-5.
Burnie, David.  1988.  Bird.  Eyewitness Books, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  0-394-89619-x.
Burton, Robert.  1990.  Bird Flight.  An Illustrated Study of Birds’ Aerial Mastery.  Facts on File, New York.  160 pp.
Byers, Clive, Jon Curson, and Urban Olsson.  1995.  Sparrows and Buntings.  A Guide to the Sparrows and Buntings of North America and the World.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  334 pp.
Crider, Bruce.  Birding Guide:  Southwest Louisiana.  State of Louisiana.
Crossley, Richard.  2011.  The Crossley ID Guide.  Eastern Birds.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  529 pp. 
Curson, Jon, David Quinn, and David Beadle.  1994.  Warblers of the Americas.  An Identification Guide.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  252 pp.
DeMay, Richard, Richard Condrey, Jennes McBride, Christopher Brantley, and Celia Riley.  2007.  The Habitats of Barataria-Terrebonne.  Their Importance to Migratory and Resident Birds. Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.  57 pp.
Dunn, Jon L. and Kimball L. Garrett.  1997.  A Field Guide to Warblers of North America.  Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.  0-395-78321-6.
Ehrlich, Paul R., David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye.  1988.  The Birder’s Handbook.  A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds.  The Essential Companion to Your Identification Guide.  Fireside Book (Simon & Schuster), New York.  0-671-65989-8.  785 pp.
Elphick, Chris, John B. Dunning, Jr., and David Allen Sibley [eds.].  2001.  National Audubon Society The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  580 pp.
Falkenheiner, Doris.  Birding Tour of Southeast Louisiana.  Louisiana Office of Tourism, Baton Rouge. 
Farrand, John, Jr. (ed).  1983.  The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding.  Vol. 1.  Loons to Sandpipers.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  0-394-53382-8.
__________  (ed.).  1983.  The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding.  Vol. 2.  Gulls to Dippers.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  0-394-53384-4.
__________ (ed).  1983.  The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding.  Vol. 3.  Old World Warblers to Sparrows.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  0-394-53383-6.
__________.  1988.  An Audubon Handbook.  How to Identify Birds.  McGraw-Hill Books, New York.  0-07-019975-2.
Floyd, Martin D.  Birds of Acadia Parish.  USDA-NRCS.    27 pp.
__________, Roger Breedlove, and Kermit Cummings.  2000.  Birds of Rapides Parish.  USDA-NRCS.  39 pp.
Fontenot, William R.  1998.  A Survey of Bird Frugivory in Louisiana.  J. Louisiana Ornith. 4(2): 31-58.
__________ and Richard DeMay.  2008.  Wings over the Wetlands.  Wading Birds in Louisiana.  Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.  56 pp.

__________ and __________.  2009.  Louisiana Breeding Wood Warblers. Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.  48 pp.
Hansard, Peter and Burton Silver.  1991.  What Bird Did That?  Ten Speed Press, San Francisco.  0-898-15427-8.
Harrison, Colin.  1978.  A Field Guide to Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds.  William Collins & Sons, Glasgow.  0-529-05484-1.  416 pp.
Harrison, Hal H.  1975.  Peterson Field Guide.  Eastern Birds’ Nests.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  257 pp.
Hewes, S. Elizabeth.  1941.  Common Birds of Louisiana.  Louisiana Dept. Wildl. Fish., Wildlife Education Bulletin (71):  1-61.
Ingold, James L.  1995.  Checklist of the Birds of the Caddo Lake Watershed in Texas and Louisiana.  Bull. Mus. Life Sci, L.S.U. Shreveport (11):  1-46.
Kaufman, Kenn.  1990.  A Field Guide to Advanced Birding.  Birding Challenges and How to Approach Them.  Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.  0-395-53376-7.
Laycock, George.  1976.  The Birdwatcher’s Bible.  Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY.  207 pp.
Lowery, George H., Jr.  1974.  Louisiana Birds.  3rd ed.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  651 pp.
Miller, Brian K. and William R.  Fontenot.  2001.  Birds of the Gulf Coast.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  132 pp.
Morgan-Jacobs, Deborah and Richard C. Banks.  1982.  Marine birds of the southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico  3 vols. Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Washington, DC.  http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00000171/00001
Musumeche, Michael J., James W. Beck, Martin D. Floyd, and Jay Huner.  2006.  Birds of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.  Privately printed.  86 pp.
National Geographic Society.  1999.  Field Guide to the Birds of North America.  2nd ed.  National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.
Newfield, Nancy L.  1993.  Louisiana’s Hummingbirds.  LA Dept. Wildl. Fish. Nat. Heritage Prog. 
__________.  2001.  Hummingbirds.  Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA.  143 pp.
__________ and Barbara Nielsen.  1996.  Hummingbird Gardens.  Attracting Nature’s Jewels to your Backyard.  Chapters Publ. Ltd., Shelburne, VT.
O’Brien, Michael, Richard Crossley, and Kevin Karlson.  2006.  The Shorebird Guide.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  477 pp.
Peake, Dwight E. and Mark Elwonger.  1996.  A New Frontier:  Pelagic Birding in the Gulf of Mexico.  Winging It 8(1): 1, 4-9.
Peterson, Roger Tory.  1980.  A Field Guide to the Birds.  Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. 
Pope, Thomas, Neil Odenwald, and Charles Fryling, Jr.  1993.  Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens.  Taylor Publ. Co., Dallas.
Portnoy, John W.  1977.  Nesting Colonies of Seabirds and Wading Birds – Coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.  U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv., Biological Services Program.  FWS/OBS-77/07.  126 pp.
Purrington, Dan, Al Smalley, Gwen Smalley, Ronald J. Stein, and James Whelan.  1987.  A Bird Finder’s Guide to Southeastern Louisiana.  Orleans Audubon Society, New Orleans.  48 pp.
__________, David Muth, Phillip Wallace, Mac Myers, Steve Cardiff, Nancy Newfield, and Richard DeMay.  2008.  Seasonal Abundance of Birds of Southeast Louisiana. Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.,  18 pp.
Rising, James D.  1996.  A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of The Sparrows of the United States and Canada.  Academic Press, New York.  365 pp.
Robbins, Chandler S., Bertel Bruun, and Herbert S. Zim.  1983.  A Guide to Field Identification. Birds of North America.  Golden Press, New York.  0-307-33656-5.
Stokes, Donald W. and James F. Lansdowne.  1983.  A Guide to Bird Behavior.  Vol. 1.  Little Brown and Co., New York.  0-316-81725-2.
__________ and Lillian Q. Stokes.  1985.  A Guide to Bird Behavior: In the Wild and at your Feeder.  Vol. 2.  Little Brown & Co., New York.  0-316-81729-5.
__________ and __________.  1989.  A Guide to Bird Behavior.  Vol. 3.  Little Brown & Co., New York.  0-316-81717-3.
Terres, John K.  1968.  How Birds Fly.  Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.  162 pp.
Thompson, Bill, III.  2004.  Louisiana Bird Watching.  A Year-round Guide.  Cool Spirngs Press, Nashville, TN.  176 pp.
Toups, Judith A. and Jerome A. Jackson.  1987.  Birds and Birding on the Mississippi Coast..  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson.  303 pp.
Wells, Jeffrey V.  2007.  Birder’s Conservation Handbook.  100 North American Birds at Risk.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  452 pp. 
Whelan, James.  A Bird Finding Guide to the New Orleans Area.  Louisiana Nature Center & Orleans Audubon Society, New Orleans.
Wiedenfeld, David A. and M. Mark Swan.  2000.  Louisiana Breeding Bird Atlas.  Louisiana Sea Grant, Baton Rouge.  80 pp.
Yaukey, Peter. 2013. Birding Made Easy- New Orleans, 2013.  Gulf South Environmental Investigations, LLC, 330 Jefferson Heights Avenue, Jefferson, LA, 70121.

JOURNAL:

Journal of Louisiana Ornithology – many good papers of relevance.

BIRDING MAPS:

Booklet:  Birds of Louisiana [a guide to the maps].

DIGITAL:

USGS.  Black bears and songbirds of the Lower Mississippi River Valley.

PHOTO SITES:

Beck, James. http://louisianabirds.shutterfly.com/,  http://losbird.org/

BLOGS:

Dr. Peter Yaukey, University of New Orleans:  birdingneworleans.blogspot.com.

GENERAL BIRD AIDS:

Quick Finders for The Warbler Guide  

BRYOPHYTES
 
Reese, William Dean.  Mosses of the Gulf South.  From the Rio Grande to the Apalachicola.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  252 pp.

BUILDING NEW ORLEANS

Colten, Craig E.  2005.  An Unnatural Metropolis.  Wresting New Orleans from Nature.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  245 pp.
__________ [ed.].  2000.  Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs.  Centuries of Change.  Univ. Pittsburg Press, Pittsburg.  272 pp.
Janssen, James S.  Building New Orleans.  The Engineer’s Role.  Waldemar S. Nelson Co, Inc., New Orleans.
Kolb, C. R. and R. T. Saucier.  1982.  Engineering geology of New Orleans. Geol. Soc.  Amer. Rev. Engineering Geol. 5:75-93.
Lewis, P. F.  1976.  New Orleans - The making of an urban landscape.  Ballinger Publ. Co., Cambridge, MA.  115 pp.
Snowden, J. O., W. C. Ward, and J. R. J. Studlick.  1980.  Geology of Greater New Orleans:  its relationship to land subsidence and flooding.  New Orleans Geol. Soc. Publ., 25 pp.
Solnit, Rebecca and Rebecca Snedeker.  2013.  Unfathomable City.  A New Orleans Atlas.  Univ. California Press, Berkeley.   166 pp.

CLIMATE CHANGE
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CULTURE:  STORIES OF COASTAL LIFE

Barry, John M.  1997.  Rising Tide.  The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.  Simon & Schuster, New York.  524 pp.
Dahmer, Fred.  1988.  Caddo was…a short history of Caddo Lake.  The Everett Companies, Bossier City.              82 pp.
Davis, Donald W.   2010.  Washed Away?  The Invisible Peoples of Louisiana’s Wetlands.  Univ. Louisiana Lafayette Press, Lafayette.  578 pp.
Dranguet, Charles A., Jr. and Roman J. Heleniak.  2008.  Backdoor to the Gulf.  An American Paradise Lost:  The Pass Manchac Region, 1699-2008.  2nd ed.  Self published.  135 pp.
Hallowell, Christopher.  2001.  Holding Back the Sea.  The Struggle for America’s Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast.  Harper Collins Publ., New York.  265 pp.
__________.  2003.  People of the Bayou.  Cajun Life in Lost America.  Pelican Press, Gretna, LA.  144 pp.
Holmes, Walter C.  2010.  A Dictionary of Louisiana-French Animal Names.  Mailbox Publ. Co., Waco, TX.  137 pp.
__________.  2013.  A Catalog of Louisiana-French Plant and Animal Names.  Mailbox Publ. Co., Waco, TX.  131 pp.
Lewis, Fielding.  1988.  Tales of a Louisiana Duck Hunter.  Little Atakapas Publ., Franklin, LA.
Ter Haar, Carol.  2005.  Chris T. Saves the Wetlands.  BIC Publishing, Baton Rouge.  [children’s book; the premise is incorrect, in that in Louisiana all Christmas trees are laid in bins or bundles to increase sedimentation, they are not planted upright in the wetlands]
Tidwell, Mike.  2003.  Bayou Farewell.  The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast.  Pantheon Books, New York.  348 pp.

DISASTERS (HURRICANES, FLOODS, OIL SPILLS/GUSHERS, ETC.)

Barry, John M.  1997.  Rising Tide.  The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.  Simon & Schuster, New York.  524 pp.
Conrad, Glenn R. and Carl A. Brasseau.  1994.  Crevasse!  The 1927 Flood in Acadiana.  Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.  125 pp.
Dixon, Bill.  2009.  Last Days of Last Island.  The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm.  Univ. Louisiana Lafayette Press.  290 pp.
Farris, G. S., G. J. Smith, M. P. Crane, C. R. Demas, L. L. Robbins, and D. L. Lavoie [eds.].  2007.  Science and the Storms:  the USGS Response to the Hurricanes of 2005.  U. S. Geological Survey Circular 136:  274 pp.
Guntenspergen, Glenn R. and Beth A. Vairin.  1996.  Willful Winds.  Hurricane Andrew and Louisiana’s Coast.  Louisiana Sea Grant, Baton Rouge, & National Biological Service, Lafayette.16 pp.
Hearn, Lafcadio.  1889 (2003).  Chita.  A Memory of Last Island.  Univ. Press Mississippi, Jackson.  110 pp.
Hearn, Philip D.  204.  Hurricane Camille.  Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast.  Univ. Press Mississippi, Jackson.  233 pp.
Horne, Jed.  2006.  Breach of Faith.  Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City.  Random House, New York.  412 pp.
Lee, Douglas Bennett.  2010.  On the Hurricane Coast.  Trauma, Memory and Recovery in the Land of the Eye of the Storm.  Self published.  373 pp.
McQuaid, John and Mark Schleifstein.  2006.  Path of Destruction.  The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms.  Little, Brown & Co., New York.  368 pp.
Mooney, Chris.  2007.  Storm World.  Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming.  Harcourt, Inc., New York.  392 pp.
Piazza, Tom.  2005.  Why New Orleans Matters.  Harper Perenneal, New York.  191 pp.
Rose, Chris.  2005.  1 dead in the Attioc.  Chris Rose Books, New Orleans.  158 pp.
Ross, Nola Mae Wittler and Susan Mcfillen Goodson.  1996.  Hurricane Audry.  Self published.  233 pp.
Van Heerden, Ivor.  2006.  The Storm.  Penguin Books, New York.  326 pp.
Wells, Ken.  2008.  The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous.  Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT.  245 pp.

EDIBLE PLANTS & HERBAL MEDICINE

Allen, Charles M., Andrew W. Allen, and Harry H. Winters.  2005.  Edible Plants of the Gulf South.  Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC.  Pitkin, LA.  291 pp.
Brown, Tom.  1983.  Tom Brown’s Guide to Wilderness Survival.  Berkeley Books.
__________.  1985.  Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants.  Berkeley Books.
Crellin, John K. and Jane Philpott.  1989.  A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants.  Herbal Medicine Past and Present.  Duke Univ. Press, Durham.  551 pp.
Duke, James A.  1997.  The Green Pharmacy.  Rodale Press, New York.  508 pp.
Elias, Thomas S. and Peter A. Dykeman.  Edible Wild Plants.  A North American Field Guide.  Sterling Publ. Co., New York.  286 pp.
Foster, Steven and James A. Duke.  2000.  Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton-Miflin, New York.  411 pp.
__________ and Rebecca L. Johnson.  2006.  Desk Reference to Nature’s Medicine.   National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.  416 pp.
Gibbons, Euell.  1964.  Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop.  McKay.
__________.  1970.  Stalking the Healthful Herbs.  McKay.
__________.  1970.  Stalking the Wild Asparagas.  McKay.
__________ and George Tucker.  1979.  Euell Gibbon’s Handbook of Edible Plants.  Donning Co.
Holmes, Walter C.  Flore Louisiane.  1990.  An Ethno-Botanical Study of French Speaking Louisiana.  Center for Louisiasna Studies, Univ. Southw. Louisiana Press, Lafayette.  149 pp.
Lacefield, Eric M.  1978.  Survival in the Marsh.  Rev.  Louisiana Dept. Wildl. Fish., Baton Rouge.  192 pp.
McKenny, Margaret.  1962.  The Savory Wild Mushrooms.  Univ. Washington Press, Seattle.
Medsger, Oliver Perry.  1966.  Edible Wild Plants.  Collier Books.
Peterson, Lee A.  1977.  A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Saunders, Charles F.  1976.  Edible and Useful Wild Plants.  Dover.
Touchstone, Samuel J.  1993.  Herbal & Folk Medicine of Louisiana and the South.  Folk-Life Books, Princeton, LA.  195 pp.

FISH

Davis, Frank.  1988.  Frank Davis Fishing Guide to Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne.  Pelican Publ., Gretna, LA.
Douglas, Neil H.  1974.  Freshwater Fishes of Louisiana.  Claitor’s Books, Baton Rouge.  443 pp.
Franklin, H. Bruce.  2007.  The Most Important Fish in the Sea.  Island Press, Washington, D.C.  265 pp.
Fritchey, Robert.  1993.  Wetland Riders.  New Moon Press, Golden Meadow, LA.  401 pp.
Gresham, Claude “Grits.”  1965.  Fishes and Fishing in Louisiana.  Claitor’s Books, Baton Rouge.
Hoese, H. Dickson and Richard H. Moore.  1998.  Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico.  Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters.  2nd ed.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  422 pp.
Horst, Jerald and Mike Lane.  2006.  Angler’s Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico.  Pelican Publ. Co., Gretna, LA.  444 pp.
Page, Lawrence M. and Brooks M. Burr.  1991.  A Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes.  North America North of Mexico.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  432 pp.
Robison, Henry W., and Thomas M. Buchanan.  1988.  Fishes of Arkansas.  The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville.  536 pp.
Shipp, Robert L.  1986.  Dr. Bob Shipp’s Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico.  KME Seabooks, Mobile, AL.
Walls, Jerry G.  1975.  Fishes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico.  T.F.H. Publ., Neptune City, NJ.  432 pp.

FUNGI, ESPECIALLY MUSHROOMS

Arora, David.  1986.  Mushrooms Dymystified.  2nd ed.  Ten Speed Press, Berkeley.  959 pp.
Bessette, Alan E., William C. Roody, Arleen R. Bessette, and Dail L. Dunaway.  2007.  Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States.  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, N.Y.  373 pp.
Beug, Michael W., Alan E. Bessette, and Arleen R. Bessette.2014.  Ascomycete Fungi of North America.  A Mushroom Reference Guide.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin.  488 pp.
Elliott, Todd F. and Steven L. Stephenson.  2018.  Mushrooms of the Southeast.  Timber Press Field Guide, Timber Press, Portland, OR.  407 pp.
Lincoff, Gary H.  1981.  National Audubon Society Field Guide to Mushrooms.  Knopf Publ., New York.  926 pp.
McKenny, Margaret.  1962.  The Savory Wild Mushrooms.  Univ. Washington Press, Seattle.
McKnight, Kent H. and Vera B. McKnight.  1987.  Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America.  Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.  429 pp.
Metzler, Susan and Van Metzler.  1992.  Texas Mushrooms.  Univ. Texas Press.
Weber, Nancy Smith and Alexander H. Smith.  1985.  A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms.  Univ. Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

GARDENING & ATTRACTING WILDLIFE

Allen, Charles M. 2022.  Gardening for Butterflies & Moths.  Allen Native Ventures LLC. 136 pp.
Arbuckle, Nancy and Cedric Crocker [eds.].  1991.  How to Attract Hummingbirds & Butterflies.  Ortho Books, San Francisco.  112 pp.
Barataria-Terrebone National Estuary Program.  2008.  BTNEP Residents’ Guide to Attracting Wildlife with Native Plants.  BTNEP.  12 pp.
Burke, Ken and Jessie Wood [eds].  1983.  How to Attract Birds.  Ortho Books, San Francisco.  96 pp.
Dennis, John V.  1985.  The Wildlife Gardener.  Alfred A. Knoph, New York.  293 pp.
Fontenot, William R.  1992.  Native Gardening in the South.  A Personal Guide for Understanding, Appreciating, and Using the Indigenous Plants of Dixie.  Prairie Basse Publication, Carencro, Louisiana.  152 pp.
Gill, Dan.  1999.  Month-by-month Gardening in Louisiana.  Cool Springs Press.  319 pp.
__________ and Joe White.  1997.  Louisiana Gardener’s Guide.  Cool Springs Press, Franklin, TN.  422 pp.
Logsdon, Gene.  1983.  Wildlife in Your Garden or, Dealing with Deer, Rabbits, Raccoons, Moles, Crows, Sparrows, and Other of Nature’s Creatures.  Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA.  268 pp.
Martin, Alexander C., Herbert S. Zim, and Arnold L. Nelson.  1951.  American Wildlife & Plants.  A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits.  Dover Publ., Inc., New York.  500 pp.
Rae, Norman.  1990.  Building Birdhouses & Feeders.  Ortho Books, San Francisco.  111 pp.
Schutz, Walter E.  1970.  How to Attract, House and Feed Birds.  Collier Books, New York.  196 pp.
Seidenberg, Charlotte.  1990.  The New Orleans Garden.  Silkmont & Count, New Orleans, LA.  528 pp.
___________.  1995.  The Wildlife Garden.  Planning Backyard Habitats.  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson.  322 pp.
Tallamy, Douglas W.  2007.  Bringing Nature Home.  How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants.  Updated & Expanded.  Timber Press, Portland.  358 pp.
Vermillion, Bill.  1997.  Louisiana Backyard Wildlife Management.  Louisiana Dept. Wildl. Fish., Natural Heritage Program, Fur & Refuge Div., Baton Rouge.  99 pp.
Wasowski, Sally and Andy Wasowski.  1994.  Gardening with Native Plants of the South.  Taylor Trade Publ., Lanham.  201 pp.
Wilson, William H. W.  1984.  Landscaping with Wildflowers & Native Plants.  Ortho Books, San Francisco.  96 pp.

GEOGRAPHY & ECOSYSTEMS

Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.  2010.  Shedding Light on Our Estuary & Our Economy.  Environmental Indicators in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary System 2010.  BTNEP.  33 pp.
Campanella, Richard.  2006.  Geographies of New Orleans.  Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. Louisiana Lafayette.  433 pp.
___________.  2008.  Bienville’s Dilemma.  A Historical Geography of New Orleans.  Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. Louisiana Lafayette.  429 pp.
Gomez, Gay M.  1998.  A Wetland Biography.  Seasons on Louisiana’s Chenier Plain.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin.  270 pp.
__________.  2008.  The Louisiana Coast.  Guide to an American Wetland.  Texas A&M Univ. Press.
Johnson, David C. and Elaine Yodis.  1998.  Geography of Louisiana.  McGraw-Hill, New York.  213 pp.
Kniffen, Fred B.  1968.  Louisiana:  Its Land and people.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  196 pp.
Louisiana Natural Heritage Program.  2009.  The Natural Communities of Louisiana.  Louisiana Dept. Wildlife & Fisheries, 46 pp.
Reuss, Martin.  2004.  Designing the Bayous.  The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin.  1800-1995.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  474 pp.
Swanson, Betsy.  1975.  Historic Jefferson Parish.  From Shore to Shore.  Pelican Publ., Gretna, LA.  176 pp.
Vidrine, Malcolm F.  2010.  The Cajun Prairie:  A Natural History.  Privately printed, Eunice, La.  314 pp.
Yodis, Elaine, Craig E. Colten, and David C. Johnson.  2003.  Geography of Louisiana.  McGraw-Hill, New York.  203 pp.

DIGITAL:

Honey Island Conservation Program: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honey-Island-Conservation-Program/183083275142934
Longue Vue House & Gardens.  nativeNOW.  Loads of good info on native and invasive plants. http://www.louisianas.org/aboutsli/history.html

GEOLOGY

Louisiana Nature & Science Center.  1986.  Louisiana in Geological History.  Louisiana Nature & Sci. Ctr, New Orleans.  1 p.
Martinez, J. D.  1991.  Salt domes.  Amer. Scient. 79(5):  420-431.
Morgan, James P. 1951. Genesis and paleontology of the Mississippi River mudlumps. Part I. Mudlumps of the Mississippi River. Louisiana Geol. Surv., Dept. Conserv., Geol. Bull. 35:57.
Slagle, Edward S.  1982.  A Tour Guide to the Building Stones of New Orleans.  The New Orleans Geological Society.  68 pp.
Spearing, Darwin.  2007.  Roadside Geology of Louisiana.  2nd ed.  Mountain Press Publ. Co., Missoula, MR.  223 pp.

GLASS & STONES, BEACH

Carruthers, Margaret W.  2006.  Beach Stones.  Abrams, New York.  143 pp.
Lambert, C. S.  2010.  Sea Glass Hunter’s Handbook.  Down East Books.  96 pp.
LaMotte, Richard.  2004.  Pure Sea Glass.  Discovering Nature’s Vanishing Gems.  Sea Glass Publ., Chestertown, MD.  226 pp.

GULF OF MEXICO

Buster, Noreen A. and Charles W. Holmes.  2011. Gulf of Mexico.  Origin, Waters, and Biota.  Vol. 3.  Geology.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  446 pp.
Cato, James C. [ed.].  2009.  Gulf of Mexico.  Origin, Waters, and Biota.  Vol. 2.  Ocean and Coastal Economy.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  110 pp.
Darnell, Rezneat.  2015.  The American Sea.  A Natural History of the Gulf of Mexico.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  554 pp.
Felder, Darryl L. and David K. Camp [eds.]. 2009.  Gulf of Mexico.  Origin, Waters, and Biota.  Vol. 1.  Biodiversity.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  1393 pp.
Galtsoff, Paul S. [coordinator].  1954.  Gulf of Mexico.  Its Origin, Waters, and Marine Life.  Fishery Bull. Fish Wildl. Serv. Vol 55 (Fishery Bull. 89):  1-604.
Gore, R. H.  1992.  The Gulf of Mexico.  A Treasury of Resources in the American Mediterranean.  Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL.  384 pp.
Johnson, William S. and Dennis M. Allen.  2012.  Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.  A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology.  2nd ed. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore.  452 pp.
Proctor, Noble S. and Patrick J. Lynch.  2011.  A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico.  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Ct.  384 pp.
Schueler, Donald G.  1986.  Adventuring Along the Gulf of Mexico.  The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Gulf Coast of the United States and Mexico from the Florida Keys to Yucatán.  Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.  325 pp.

INSECTS

Abbott, John C.  2005.  Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States.  Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  344 pp.
Beaton, Giff.  2007.  Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.  355 pp.
Blanche, Rosalind.  Life in a Gall.  2012.  The Biology and Ecology of Insects that Live in Plant Galls.  CSIRO Publ., Australia.  71 pp.
Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White.  1970.  A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  404 pp.
Bouchard, Patricia.  2014.  The Book of Beetles.  A Life-size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems.  Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.  656 pp.
Brooks, Steve.  2003.  Dragonflies.  Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC.  96 pp.
Burris, Judy and Wayne Richards.  2006.  The Life Cycles of Butterflies.  From Egg to Maturity, a Visual Guide to 23 Common Garden Butterflies.  Storey Publ., North Adams, MA.  151 pp.
Capinera, John L., Ralph D. Scott, and Thomas J. Walker.  2994.  Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States.  Comstock Publ. Assoc., Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca.  249 pp.
Covell, Charles V., Jr.  1984.  A Field Guide to the Moths of Eastern North America.  Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton Miflin, Boston.  496 pp.
Crabshaw, Whitney.  2004.  Garden Insects of North America.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  656 pp.
Damrosch, Barbara.  Theme Gardens.  Workman Publ. Co., New York.
Discovery Channel.  2000.  Insects and Spiders.  An Explore Your World Handbook.  Discovery Books, New York.  192 pp.
Drees, Bastiaan M. and John M. Jackman.  1998.  A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects.  Gulf Publ., Houston.  359 pp.
Dunkle, Sidney W.  2000.  Dragonflies Through Binoculars.  A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America.  Oxford Univ. Press, London.  266 pp.
Dunn, Rob.  The Wild Life of our Bodies.  2011.  Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today.  Harper/Collins Publ., New York, NY.  290 pp.
Eaton, Eric R. and Kenn Kaufman.  2007.  Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  392 pp.
Eiseman, Charley and Noah Charney.  2010.  Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates.  A Guide to North American Species.  Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.  582 pp.
Elliott, Lang and Wil Hershberger.  2007.  The Songs of Insects.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  228 pp + DVD.
Evans, Arthur V.  2008.  National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America.  Sterling, New York.  497 pp.
__________.  2014.  Beetles of eastern North America.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  560 pp.
Felt, Ephraim Porter.  1917.  Key to American Insect Galls.  New York St. Mus. Bull. (200): 310 pp.   Reprinted.
Ferro, Michael L., Katherine A. Parys, and Matthew L. Gimmel [eds.].  Dragonflies & Damselflies of Louisiana.  Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, L.S.U., Baton Rouge.  177 pp.
Gagné, Raymond J.  1989.  The Plant-feeding Gall Midges of North America.  Comstock Publ. Assoc., Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, New York.  356 pp.
Glassberg, Jeffrey.  1999.  Butterflies through binoculars:  the east.  Oxford University Press, New York.  242 pp.
Hedges, Stoy A.  1998.  Field Guide for the Management of Structure Infesting Flies.  G.I.E. Inc Publishers, Cleveland, Oh.  151 pp. + color photos.
___________.  2010.  Field Guide for the Management of Structure-infesting Ants.  G.I.E. Inc Publishers, Richfield, Oh.  325 pp.
Hodges, Amanda, Eilee Buss, and Russel F. Mizell III.  2006.  Insect Galls of Florida.  Inst. Food and Agricultural Sci., Univ. Florida, SP 343, 130 pp.
Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson.  1990.  The Ants.  Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.  732 pp.
__________ and ___________.  1994.  Journey of the Ants.  A Story of Scientific Exploration. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.  228 pp.
Izaak Walton League of America.  2006.  Guide to Aquatic Insects & Crustaceans.  Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.  74 pp.
Klots, Alexander B.  1951.  A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  349 pp.
Leckie, Seabrooke and David Beadle.  2018.  Peterson Field Guide to Moths of southeastern North America.  Houghton-Miflin, Boston.  652 pp.
Linsenmaier, Walter.  1972.  Insects of the World.  McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York.  392 pp.
Marks, Craig.  2018.  Butterflies of Louisiana.  A Guide to Identification and Location.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  462 pp.
Marshall, Stephen A.  2012.  Flies.  A Natural History and diversity of Diptera.  Firefly Books, Buffalo, New York.  616 pp.
__________.  2013.  Insects.  Their Natural History and Diversity.  Firefly Books, Buffalo, New York.  732 pp.
Milne, Lorus and Margery Milne.  1980.  Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders.  National Audubon Society.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  989 pp.
Mitchell, Robert and Herbert Zim.  1987.  Butterflies and Moths.  Golden Press, New York.
Nikula, Blair, Jackie Sones, Donald Stokes, and Lillian Stokes.  2002.  Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies.  Little, Brown & Co., New York.  159 pp.
Paulson, Dennis.  2011.  Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East.  Princeton Field Guides.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  538 pp.
Pyle, Robert.  1981.  Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies.  Alfred A. Knopf.
__________, The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers.  Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
Ross, Gary Noel.  1994.  Gardening for Butterflies in Louisiana.  LA Dept. Wildl. Fish. Nat. Heritage Prog.
Spencer, Lori A.  2006.  Arkansas Butterflies and Moths.  Ozark Society Foundation, Little Rock.  314 pp.
Stokes, Donald W.  1983.  A Guide to Observing Insect Lives.  Stokes Nature Guides.  Little, Brown & Co., Boston.  371 pp.
Tekulsky, Matthew.  The Butterfly Garden.  Harvard Common Press, Boston.
Triplehorn, Charles A. and Norman F. Johnson.  2005.  Borror and Delong’s Introduction to the Study of Insects.  7th ed.  Thomson Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA.  864 pp.
Wagner, David L.  2005.  Caterpillars of Eastern North America.  A Guide to Identification and Natural History.  Princeton Field Guides.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  512 pp.
Williams, Paul, Robbin Thorp, Leif Richardson, and Sheila Colla.  2014.  Bumble bees of North America.  An identification guide.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  208 pp.
Wright, Amy Bartlett.  1993.  Peterson First Field Guide to Caterpillars of North America.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  128 pp.

WEBSITES:

Vernon Brou’s Moths of Louisiana: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/contrib.php?plate=1&init=VB&sort=h
Vernon Brou & his publications: http://www.lsuinsects.org/people/vernonbrou/index.html
Jeff Trahan’s Caddo Parish butterfly site:  http://www.jtrahan.com/butterflies/index.htm
Louisiana dragonflies & damselflies: http://www.odonatacentral.org/index.php/PageAction.get/name/HomePage

PHOTO SITES:

Beck, James. http://louisianarobberflies.shutterfly.com/ 
            http://bugguide.net/bgimage/user/11732 
            http://bugmudatriangle.blogspot.com/ 

INVERTEBRATES, FRESHWATER

Huner, J. V. and J. E. Barr.  1984.  Red Swamp Crayfish:  Biology and Exploitation.  Louisiana Sea Grant Prog., Ctr. Wetland Resources, Louisiana St. Univ., Baton Rouge, La.  136 pp.
Irwin, Sam.  Louisiana Crawfish.  2014.  A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean.  American Palate, The History Press, Charleston, SC.  157 pp.
Izaak Walton League of America.  2006.  Guide to Aquatic Insects & Crustaceans.  Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.  74 pp.
Smith, Douglas Grant.  2001.  Pennak’s Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States.  Porifera to Crustacea.  4th ed.  John Wiley & Sons, New York.  638 pp.
Thorpe, James H. and Alan P. Covich [eds].  2001.  Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates.  2nd Ed.  Academic Press, New York.  1056 pp.
Voshell, J. Reese, Jr.  2002.  A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America.  McDonald & Woodward Publ. Co., Blacksburg, VA.  442 pp.
Walls, Jerry G.  2009.  Crawfishes of Louisiana.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  240 pp.


DIGITAL:

Shively, Stephen H. and Jerry G. Walls.  2003.  Crawfish of the Kisatchie National Forest. USDA Forest Service. 

LICHENS

Brodo, Irwin M., Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, and Stephen Sharnoff.  2001.  Lichens of North America.  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT.  795 pp.
Hale, Mason E.  1979.  How to Know the Lichens.  2nd ed.  William C. Brown Co. Publ., Dubuque.  246 pp.
Nash, Thomas H. [ed.].  2008.  Lichen Biology.  2nd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.  489 pp.
Purvis, William.  2000.  Lichens.  Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.  112 pp.

   WEBSITE:

Louisiana checklist - University of Hamburg, Germany: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/checklists/lichens/north-america/usa_louisiana_l.htm

MAMMALS

Arthur, Stanley Clisby.  1931.  The Fur Animals of Louisiana.  Bull. Louisiana Dept. Conserv. 18: 1-444.  [http://www.archive.org/stream/furanimalsofloui00arth/furanimalsofloui00arth_djvu.txt]
Floyd, Marty.  1983.  Marshland vegetation for waterfowl & furbearers.  USDA-NRCS.  49 pp.
Lowery, George S., Jr.  1974.  The Mammals of Louisiana and Adjacent Waters.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.
O'Neil, T. and G. Linscombe.  1977.  The fur animals, the alligator, and the fur industry in Louisiana.  La. Dept. Wildl. & Fish., Wildl. Ed. Bull.  (109):  1-68.
Sealander, John A., and Gary A. Heidt.  1990.  Arkansas Mammals:  Their Natural History,             Classification, and Distribution.  Univ. Arkansas Press, Fayetteville.  308 pp.

DIGITAL:

Beck, James.  Louisiana Mammal Homepage.  http://louisianamammals.shutterfly.com/

USGS.  Black bears and songbirds of the Lower Mississippi River Valley.

MICROBES (see also Soils)

Dyer, Betsey Dexter.  2003.  A Field Guide to Bacteria.  Comstock Publ. Assoc, Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca.  355 pp.

MISCELLANEOUS

Pukite, John.  1996.  A Field Guide to Cows.  How To Identify and Appreciate America’s 52 Breeds.  Penguin Books, New York.  142 pp.
Wood, Elizabeth A.  1975.  Science from Your Airplane Window.  2nd Rev.  Dover Publ., New York.  227 pp.

MOLLUSKS

Abbott, R. Tucker.  1954.  American Seashells.  D. Van Nostrand Co., Princeton, NJ.  541 pp.
__________.  1968.  A Guide to Field Identification.  Seashells of North America.  Golden Press, New York.  280 pp.
__________.  1989.  Compendium of Landshells.  A Color Guide to More than 2,000 of the World’s Terrestrial Shells.  American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, FL.  240 pp.
__________ and Percy A. Morris.  1995.  A Field Guide to Shells.  Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  4th Ed.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  350 pp.
Dugas, R. J,  J. W. Tarver, and L. S. Nutwell.  1974.  The mollusk communities of Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, Louisiana.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull  (10):  1-13.
Dundee, Dee S.  1974.  Catalog of introduced molluscs of eastern North America (north of Mexico).  Sterkiana (55): 1-37.
Branson, Branley A.  1980.  The recent Gastropoda of Oklahoma, Part VIII.  The slug families Limacidae, Arionidae, Veronicellidae, and Philomycidae.  Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 60: 29-35.
Burch, John B.  1962.  How to Know the Eastern Land Snails.  William C. Brown Co. Publ., Dubuque, Iowa.
Hannen, G. Dallas.  1966.  Introduced mollusks of western North America.  Occas. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 48(108):
Heard, Richard W.  1979.  Guide to common tidal marsh invertebrates of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.  Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, MASGP-79-004.
Kurlansky, Mark.  2006.  The Big Oyster.  History on the Half Shell.  Random House, New York.  307 pp.
Pillsbury, Henry A.  1948.  Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico).  Monographs Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia.
Rehder, Harald A.  1984.  Field Guide to North American Seashells.  National Audubon Society.  A. A. Knopf, New York.  894 pp.
Strum, C. F., T. A. Pearce, and A. Valdés [eds.].  2006.  The Mollusks.  A guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation.  Amer. Malacol. Soc., Universal Publ., Boca Raton, FL.  445 pp.
Tunnell, John W., Jr., Jean Andrews, No C. Barrera, and Fabio Moretzsohn.  2010.  Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells.  Identification, Ecology, Distribution, & History.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  512 pp.
Vermeij, Geerat J.  1993.  A Natural History of Shells.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  207 pp.
Vidrine, Malcolm F.  1993.  The historical distribution of Freshwater Mussels in Louisiana.  Gail Q. Vidrine Collectables, Eunice, LA. 

MOSSES

Schofield, W. B.  1985.  Introduction to Bryology.  Blackburn Press, Caldwell, NJ.  431 pp.

NATIVE AMERICANS

Dormon, Caroline.  1967.  Southern Indian Boy.  Claitor’s Books, Baton Rouge.
Duplantier, Stephen.  1981.  An Essay on Lower Louisiana.  An Ethnohistory of 12,000 years of life on the brink.  Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and the Center for Gulf South History and Culture, Inc., New Orleans.  351 pp.
Kniffen, Fred B.  1976.  The Indians of Louisiana.  Pelican Publ., Gretna, LA.
__________, Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes.  1987.  The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana.  From 1542 to the Present.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.
Moore, Elizabeth and Alice Couvillon.  1990.  Louisiana Indian Tribes.  Pelican Pub., Gretna, LA.
Neuman, Robert W. and Nancy W. Hawkins.  1982.  Louisiana’s Prehistory.  State of Louisiana, Archaeological Survey, Baton Rouge.  40 pp.
Spitzer, N. R.  (ed.).  1979.  Mississippi Delta ethnographic overview.  unpubl. ms submitted to Jean Lafitte National Park.

NATURAL HISTORY & HABITATS (GENERAL)

Barlow, Connie.  2000.  The Ghosts of Evolution.  Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and other Ecological Anachronisms.   Basic Books.  291 pp.
Benyus, Janine M.  1989a.  The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States.  A Firestone Book, Simon & Schuster, New York.  336 pp.
__________.  1989b.  The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Western United States.  Fireside Books, New York.  336 pp.
Brady, Irene.  2008.  The Southern Swamp Explorer.  Nature Works Press, Talent, OR.  128 pp.
Camel, Nancy.  2006.  The Nature of Things at Lake Martin.  Exploring the Wonders of Cypress Island Preserve in Southern Louisiana.  Acadian House Publ., Lafayette.   127 pp.
Cavalier, Elois J.  1995.  T-Nonc The Cajun Environmentalist.  Blue Heron Press, Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Cvancara, Alan M.  1989.  At the Water’s Edge.  Nature Study in Lakes, Streams, and Ponds.   John Wiley & Sons, New York.  232 pp. 
DeMay, Richard, Richard Condrey, Jennes McBride, Christopher Brantley, and Celia Riley.  2007.  The Habitats of Barataria-Terrebonne.  Their Importance to Migratory and Resident Birds. Barataria-Terrebone Natl. Estuary Prog.  57 pp.
Fontenot, William R.  2008.  Watching a Forest Grow.  And Other Tales of Natural Splendor from Acadiana and Beyond.  Prairie Basse Publications, Carencro, LA.  460 pp.
Houck, Oliver A.  2010.  Down on the Batture.  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson.  205 pp.
Keddy, Paul A.  2008.  Water, Earth, Fire:  Louisiana's Natural Heritage.  Xlibris, Philadelphis.  229 pp.Lacefield, Eric M.  1978.  Survival in the Marsh.  Rev. Louisiana Dept. Wildl. Fish., Baton Rouge.  192 pp.
Lockwood, C. C.  1995.  Louisiana Nature Guide.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  92 pp.
Murray, Robert E., Sr., and David W. Moreland.  1977.  Honey Island Nature Trail.  Louisiana Wildl. Fish., Baton Rouge.  26 pp.
Ouchley, Amy.  2013.  Swamper - Letters from a Louisiana Swamp Rabbit.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge.  60 pp.  [5th grade level book on bottomland hardwood habitats]
Ouchley, Kelby.  2010.  Flora and Fauna of the Civil War:  An Environmental Reference Guide.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge, LA.  279 pp.
__________.  2011.  Bayou-diversity.  Nature and people in the Louisiana Bayou Country.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge, LA.  226 pp.
Sylvest, Thomas.  Collard Greens.  2008.  Growing up on the Sandhill subsistence Farm in Louisiana during the Great Depression.  Authorhouse Bloomington, IN.  274 pp.
Viosca, Percy , Jr.  1933.  Louisiana Out-of-Doors.  A Handbook and Guide.  Published by the author.  187 pp.
Wessels, Tom.  2010.  Forest Forensics.  A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.  Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT.  158 pp.

WEBSITES:

Delahoussaye, James (Jim) A.  Riverlogue. http://riverlogue.blogspot.com/
Finnie, Thomas (Tom).  Thomas Finnie Photography. http://tfinnie.blogspot.com/
Fontenot, William (Bill) R.  The Nature Dude. http://thenaturedude.blogspot.com/
Herron, Matt.  The Letter B:  A pilgrimage to the heart of Louisiana, exploring biodiversity, culture and community awareness.  http://booksbirdsbicyclesbotany.blogspot.com/    
Ouchley, Kelby.  http://bayou-diversity.com
__________.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bayou-Diversity/166640950063427
__________.  http://www.kedm.org/audio/bayou-diversity
Thomas, Robert (Bob) A.  Nature Notes. http://loyno.edu/lucec/natural-history-writingsYaukey, Peter, University of New Orleans:  birdingneworleans.blogspot.com.


OTHER LINKS:

Louisiana Conservationists archives:  www.archive.org
Louisiana Naturalist’s Network:
Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/louisiana-naturalist-network
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245293662257389/
Southern Naturalist’s Almanac - https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ve7e8p6rc2u91tablnjpa96ptc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago

NATURALISTS OF LOUISIANA & THE HISTORY OF THEIR ACTIVITY


Cocks, R. S.  1900.  Historical sketch of the botany of Louisiana.  Proc. Louisiana Soc. Naturalists 1897-99:  69-74.
Hardy, Laurence M. [editor].  2008.  Freeman and Custis Red River Expedition of 1806:  Two hundred years later.  A symposium June 14-17, 2006.  Bull. Mus. Life Sci. [Louisiana St. Univ. Shreveport] (14): 1-368.


NATURE EDUCATION
Louv, Richard. 2005.  Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  390pp.
__________. 2011.  The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age.  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  317 pp.
Wilson, Edward O.  1992. The Diversity of Life. Harvard University Press.  440 pp.
__________.  1994. Naturalist. First Island Press.  414 pp.


PLANTS
Buy plants and seeds for re-wilding at  https://www.facebook.com/SoggyPrairieStalksandSeeds
Ajilvsgi, Geyata.  1979.  Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket.  East Texas, and Western Louisiana.  Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station.  360 pp.
Allain, Larry, Malcolm Vidrine, Vicki Grafe, Charles Allen, and Steve Johnson.  1999.  Paradise Lost?  The Coastal Prairie of Louisiana and Texas.  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service & U.S. Geological Survey.  39 pp.
Allen, Charles A.  1992.  Grasses of Louisiana.  2nd ed.  Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Soc., Eunice, LA.   pp.
__________, Andrew W. Allen, and Harry H. Winters.  2005.  Edible Plants of the Gulf South.  Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC.  Pitkin, LA.  291 pp.
__________, Dawn Allen Newman, and Harry H. Winters.  2002.  Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Louisiana.  Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC.  Pitkin, LA.  333 pp.
__________, Dawn Allen Newman, and Harry H. Winters.  2008.  Grasses of Louisiana.  3rd ed.  Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC.  Pitkin, LA.  374 pp.
__________, Kenneth A. Wilson, and Harry H. Winters.  2011.  Louisiana Wildflower Guide.  Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC.  Pitkin, LA.  245 pp.
Brandenburg, David M.  2010.  National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Wildflowers of North America.  Sterling, New York.  673 pp.
Brown, Clair A.  1945.  Louisiana Trees and Shrubs.  Louisiana Forestry Comm. Bull. 1: 1-262.  Reprinted 1965, Claitor’s Book Store, Baton Rouge.
__________.  1972.  Wildflowers of Louisiana and Adjoining States.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  247 pp.
__________ and Donovan S. Correll.  1942.  Ferns and Fern Allies of Louisiana.  Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  186 pp.
__________ and Glen N. Montz.  1986.  Baldcypress.  The Tree Unique, the Wood Eternal.  Claitor’s Publ. Co., Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  139 pp.
Brown, Lauren.  1976 [1997].  Wildflowers and Winter Weeds.  W. W. Norton Co., New York.  252 pp.
Bryson, Charles T. and Michael S. DeFelice [eds].  2009.  Weeds of the South.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens, GA.  468 pp.  
Chadde, Steve W.  2012a.  Wetland Plants of Texas.  A Complete Guide to the Wetland and Aquatic Plants of the Lone Star State.  Volume one.  Pteridophytes (Ferns and Fern Allies), Gymnosperms (Conifers), Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - Monocots.  A Bogman Guide.  Privately published, 360 pp.
__________.  2012b.  Wetland Plants of Texas.  A Complete Guide to the Wetland and Aquatic Plants of the Lone Star State.  Volume two.  Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - Dicots.  A Bogman Guide.  Privately published, 506 pp.
Caillet, Marie and Joseph K. Mertzweiller [eds.].  1988.  The Louisiana Iris.  The History and Culture of Five Native American Species and their Hybrids.  Texas Gardener Press, Waco, TX.  [see Society for Louisiana Irises below].
Capron, Brian.  2010.  Botany for Gardeners.  3rd ed.Timber Press, Portland, OR.  268 pp.
Chabreck, R. H. and R. E. Condrey.  1979.  Common Vascular Plants of the Louisiana Marsh.  Louisiana St. Univ. Center Wetland Resources, Baton Rouge.  Sea Grant Publ. LSU-T-79-003.
Department of Conservation.  1933.  Louisiana Tree Primer.  2nd ed.  Baton Rouge, LA.  165 pp.
Dickenson, Richard and France Royer.  2014.  Weeds of North America.  Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.  797 pp. 
Dormon, Caroline.  1958.  Flowers Native to the Deep South.  Claitor’s Book Store, Baton Rouge, LA.  176 pp.
__________.  1965.  Natives Preferred.  Claitor’s Book Store, Baton Rouge, LA.  217 pp.
Duncan, Wilbur H. 1975.  Woody Vines of the Southeastern United States.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.  76 pp.
__________and Marion B. Duncan.  1987.  The Smithsonian Guide to Seaside Plants of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts from Louisiana to Massachusetts, Exclusive of Lower Peninsular Florida.  Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, DC.  409 pp.
__________ and __________.  1988.  Trees of the Southeastern United States.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.  322 pp.
__________ and __________.  1999.  Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.  380 pp.
___________ and Leonard E. Foote.  1975.  Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.  296.
Eleuterius, L. N.  1980.  An illustrated guide to tidal marsh plants of Mississippi and adjacent states.  Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.  Publ. No.: MASGP-77-039, 131 pp.
__________.  1990.  Tidal Marsh Plants.  Pelican Publ. Co., Gretna, LA.  168 pp.
Embertson, Jane.  1979.  Pods.  Wildflowers and Weeds in Their Final Beauty.   A Visual Guide.  From Flower . . . to Pod . . . To Dried Arrangements.  Charles Schribner’s Sons, New York.  186 pp.
Floyd, Marty.  1983.  Marshland vegetation for waterfowl & furbearers.  USDA-NRCS.  49 pp.
__________.  1988.  Submerged and floating aquatic plants of south Louisiana.  USDA-NRCS.  67 pp.
Fontenot, William R.  1992.  Native Gardening in the South.  A Personal Guide for Understanding, Appreciating, and Using the Indigenous Plants of Dixie.  Prairie Basse Publ., Carencro, LA.  150 pp.
Foote, Leonard E. And Samuel B. Jones, Jr.  1989.  Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.  Landscaping Uses and Identification.  Timber Press, Portland, OR.  199 pp.
Friends of Hilltop Arboretum, Inc.  1997.  A Pocket Guide to Louisiana Native Trees.  Friends of Hilltop Arboretum, Baton Rouge.
Ghandi, Kancheepuram N. and R. Dale Thomas.  1989.  Asteraceae of Louisiana.  Sida, Botanical Miscellany 4: 286 pp.
Godfrey, Robert K.  1988.  Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens, GA.  734 pp.
Greater New Orleans Iris Society.  2018.  A Guide to Louisiana Irises in and around New Orleans.  Greater New Orleans Iris Society, New Orleans, La.  3rd ed.  25 pp.
Haskell, David George.  2012.  The Forest Unseen.  A Year's Watch in Nature.  Penguin Books, New York.  269 pp.
Holmes, Walter C.  Flore Louisiane.  1990.  An Ethno-Botanical Study of French Speaking Louisiana.  Center for Louisiasna Studies, Univ. Southw. Louisiana Press, Lafayette.  149 pp.
Hunter, Carl G.  1984.  Wildflowers of Arkansas.  The Ozark Society Foundation, Little Rock.  296 pp.
Keator, Glenn.  1998.  The Life of an Oak.  An Intimate Portrait.  Heyday Books, California Oak Fouindation, Berkeley, CA.   256 pp.
Kershner, Bruce, Danile Mathews, Gil Nelson, Richard Spellenberg, Terry Purinton, Andrew Block, Gerry Moore, and John W. Thieret.  2008.  National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America.  Sterling, New York.  529 pp.
Kirkman, L. Katherine, Claud L. Brown, and Donald J. Leopold.  2007.  Native Trees of the Southeast.  An Identification Guide.  Timber Press, Portland, OR.   370 pp.
Larke, Julia O. and Latimore M. Smith.  1994.  Rare Plants of Pine-Hardwood Forests in Louisiana.  Louisiana Dept. Wildl. Fish. & Dept. Agricul. Forest., Baton Rouge.  58 pp.
Lasseigne, Alex.  1973.  Louisiana Legumes.  Southw. Stud., Univ.Southw. LA (1): 1-255.
MacRoberts, D. T.  1984.  The Vascular Plants of Louisiana.  An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Vascular Plants Reported to Grow without Cultivation in Louisiana.  Bull. Mus. Life Sci., Louisiana St. Univ. Shreveport (6): 1-165.
Martin, Corinne. 2022. Louisiana Herp Journal. Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge. 282 pp.
Martin, Laura C.  1984.  Wildflower Folklore.  East Woods Press, Charlotte, NC.  256 pp.
Mertzweiller, Joseph K. [ed.]  1991.  No Title (a collection of articles on Louisiana irises, 1941-1991.  Fiftieth Anniversary Publication, Society for Louisiana Irises.  Franklin Press, Inc., Baton Rouge, La. 128 pp.
Miller, James H. and Karl V. Miller.  2005.  Forest Plants of the Southeast and their Wildlife Uses.  Rev. Ed.  Univ. Georgia Press, Athens, GA.  454 pp.
Nelson, Gil.  1996.  The Shrubs & Woody Vines of Florida.  A Reference and Field Guide.  Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL.  391 pp.
__________.  2005.  East Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers.  A Falcon Guide, Guilford, CT.  263 pp.
__________, Christopher J. Earle, and Richard Spellenberg.  2014.  Trees of Eastern North America.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.  720 pp.
Neyland, Ray.  2009.  Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain.  A Field Guide.  Includes the Lower Mississsippi River Valley, Gulf, and Atlantic Coastal  States.  L.S.U. Press, Baton Rouge, LA.  339 pp.
Norgress, Rachel Edna.  1947.  The History of the Cypress Lumber Industry in Louisiana.  Louisiana Historical Quart. 30(3):  3-83.
Odenwald, Neil and James Turner.  1996.  Identification, Selection and Use of Southern Plants for Landscape Design.  3rd ed.  Claitor’s Books, Baton Rouge.
Orso, Ethelyn G.  1992.  Louisiana Live Oak Lore.  Ctr. Louisiana Stud., Univ. Southw. LA, Lafayette.
Peak, Myra F. [ed.].  Louisiana Arboretum.  State of Louisiana.
Peattie, Donald Culross.  2007.  A Natural History of North American Trees.  Trinity Univ. Press, San Antonio, Tx.  490 pp.
Preston, Richard J., Jr., and Valerie G. Wright.  1981.  Identification of Southeastern Trees in Winter.  North Carolina Extension Serv., Raleigh, NC.  113 pp.
Reese, William Dean.  Acadiana Flora.  1992.  Native and Naturalized Woody Plants of South-Central Louisiana. Ctr. Louisiana Stud., Univ. Southw. LA, Lafayette.
Rutkow, Eric.  American Canopy.  2012.  Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation.  Schribner, New York.  406 pp.
Schummer, Michael L., Heath M. Hagy, K. Sarah Fleming, Joshua C. Cheshier, and James T. Callicutt.  2012.  A Guide to Moist-soil Wetland Plants of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson.  260 pp.Sibley, David Allen.  2009.  The Sibley Guide to Trees.  Alfred A. Knopf.  New York, NY.  426 pp.
Sinclair, Wayne A.  and Howard H. Lyon.  2005.  Disease of Trees and Shrubs.  2nd ed.  Comstock Publ. Assoc., Corness Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY.  660 pp + DVD.
Society for Louisiana Irises (Marie Caillet, J. Farron Campbell, Kevin C. Vaughn, and Dennis Vercher, Contr. Eds.).  2000.  The Louisiana Iris.  The Taming of a Native American Wildflower.  Timber Press, Portland, OR.  211 pp.  [see Caillet and Mertzweiller, 1988, above].
Stutzenbaker, Charles D.  1999.  Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the Western Gulf Coast.  Texas Parks & Wildl. Press, Austin. 
Taylor, David D. and R. Dale Thomas.  1985.  A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Washington and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana. Contri. Herbarium Northeast Louisiana Univ., Monroe, Number 6.  104 pp.
Thieret, John W.  1967.  Flora of Louisiana.  Part 1.  Southwestern Louisiana Journal 7(1-4):  1-83.
__________.  1972a.   Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Louisiana.  Part 1.  Ferns and Fern Allies, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons.  Lafayette Nat. Hist. Mus. Tech. Bull. 2:  1-48.
__________,  1972b.  Aquatic and Marsh Plants of Louisiana.  Louisiana Soc. Horticul. Res. 13(1):  1-45.
__________.  1980.  Louisiana Ferns and Fern Allies.  Louisiana Nat. Hist. Mus., Lafayette.  123 pp.
Thomas, R. Dale and Charles M. Allen.  1982.  A Preliminary Checklist of the Dicotyledons of Louisiana.  Contri. Herbarium Northeast Louisiana Univ., Monroe, Number 3.  130 pp.
__________ and __________.  1984.  A Preliminary Checklist of the Pteridosperms, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons of Louisiana. Contri. Herbarium Northeast Louisiana Univ., Monroe, Number 4.  55 pp.
___________ and __________.  1993.  Atlas of the Vascular Flora of Louisiana.  Volume I: Ferns & Fern Allies, Conifers, & Monocotyledons.  LA Dept. Wildl. Fish. Nat. Heritage Prog. & Nature Conserv. LA.
__________ and ___________.  1996.  Atlas of the Vascular Flora of Louisiana.  Volume II: Dicotyledons, Acanthaceae - Euphorbiaceae.  LA Dept. Wildl. Fish. Nat. Heritage Prog. & Nature Conserv. LA.
__________ and __________.  1998.  Atlas of the Vascular Flora of Louisiana.  Volume III: Dicotyledons, Fabaceae - Zygophyllaceae.  LA Dept. Wildl. Fish. Nat. Heritage Prog. & Nature Conserv. LA.
Timme, S. Lee.  1989.  Wildflowers of Mississippi.  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson.  278 pp.
Tiner, Ralph W.  1993.  Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States.  Univ. Massachusetts Press, Amherst.  328 pp.
Vines, Robert A.  1960 (1984 printing).  Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Southwest.  A Guide for the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin.  1104 pp.Walker, Kelso.  2001.  Jewels in the Landscape.  A Celebration of Louisiana’s Wildflowers.  Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana Lafayette.  203 pp.
Wessels, Tom.  2010.  Forest Forensics.  A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.  Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT.  158 pp.

DIGITAL:
Dillard, Tom W.  From New Orleans to New Zealand:  History and development of the Louisiana irises. http://www.louisianas.org/aboutsli/history.html
Longue Vue House & Gardens.  nativeNOW.  Loads of good info on native and invasive plants. http://www.louisianas.org/aboutsli/history.html

PHOTO SITES:

Beck, James. http://louisianaplants.shutterfly.com/ 

ID HELP:

Louisiana Plant Data Base, Louisiana State University:  http://www.rnr.lsu.edu/plantid/

Guide to the Plants of Louisiana by Larry Allain & Chris Reid

PONTCHARTRAIN, LAKE

Banbury, Mary M., Anne B. Rheams, Sue Ellen Lyons, Dinah F. Maygarden, Sharon Flanagan, and Michael C. Greene.  2002.  Lessons on the Lake:  An Educator’s Guide to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.  2nd Ed.  Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Metairie, LA. 
Campanella, Catherine.  2007.  Lake Pontchartrain.  Images of America.  Arcadia Publ., Charleston, SC.  127 pp.
Darnell, Rezneat M. 1958. Food habits of fishes and larger invertebrates of Lake     Pontchartain, Louisiana, an estuarine community, Pub. Inst. Mar. Sci. Univ. Texas 5: 353-416.
__________.  1961. Trophic spectrum of an estuarine community based upon studies of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, Ecology 42:  553-568.
__________. 1962.  Ecological history of Lake Pontchartrain, an estuarine community. Amer. Midl. Nat. 66:  313-320.
Dranguet, Charles A., Jr. and Roman J. Heleniak.  2008.  Backdoor to the Gulf.  An American Paradise Lost:  The Pass Manchac Region, 1699-2008.  2nd ed.  Self published.  135 pp.
Dugas, R. J., J. W. Tarver, and L. S. Nutwell.  1974.  The mollusk communities of Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, Louisiana.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull  (10):  1-13.
Hastings, Robert W.  2009.  The Lakes of Pontchartrain.  Their History and Environments.  Univ. Press Mississippi, Jackson.  319 pp.
Houck, Oliver, F. Wagner, and J. B. Elstrott.  1989.  To restore Lake Pontchartrain.  A report to the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission on the sources, remedies, and economic impacts of pollution in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.  Metairie, LA.  270 pp.
Junot, J., M. A. Poirrier, and T. M. Soniat.  1983.  Effects of saltwater intrusion from the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal on the benthos of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.  Gulf Res. Repts. 7(3):  247-254.
Maygarden, Dinah Forsyth [Robert A. Thomas, Ed.].  1996.  LaBranche:  Lessons of a Wetland Paradise.  The Audubon Institute Office of Environmental Policy, New Orleans.  105 pp + 30 illustrations. 
__________.  2004.  A Guide to the Wetlands of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.  Parts 1 & 2.  www.pies.uno.edu/education.
__________ and Heather Egger.  2012a.  Field-based educator’s guide to the Lake Pontchartrain Estuary.  Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, Coastal Education Program, University of New Orleans. (http://pies.uno.edu/documents/Field%20Trip%20Guide%20.pdf)
__________ and __________.  2012b.  Field identification materials:  brackish to saltwater organisms.  (available at http://pies.uno.edu/documents/Critter%20ID%20pages.pdf) – Appendix to publication by the same authors above).
Montz, Glen N.  1978.  Vegetational studies on the effects of the 1973 operation of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana.  Proc. La. Acad. Sci.  41:  36-41.
Poirrier, M. A.  1978.  Studies of salinity stratification in southern Lake Pontchartrain near the Inner Harbour Navigation Canal.  Proc. La. Acad. Sci. 41:  26-35.
__________ and M. M. Mulino.  1975.  The effects of the 1973 opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway upon epifaunal invertebrates in southern Lake Pontchartrain.  Proc. La. Acad. Sci.  38:  36-40.
__________ and __________.  1977.  The impact of the 1975 Bonnet Carré Spillway opening on epifaunal invertebrates in southern Lake Pontchartrain.  J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc.  93:  11-18.
Roberts, W. Adolphe.  1946.  Lake Pontchartrain.  The American Lakes Series.  Bobbs-Merril Co. Publ., Indianapolis. 
Saucier, R. T.  1963.  Recent geomorphic history of the Pontchartrain Basin.  Coastal Stud. Ser. 9, LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 114 pp.
Sikora, W. B. and J. P. Sikora.  1982.  Ecological characterization of the benthic community of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.  U.S. Army Corps Engr., Contract No. DACW29-79.  214 pp.
__________ and B. Kjerfve.  1985.  Factors influencing the salinity regime of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, a shallow coastal lagoon:  Analysis of a long-term data set.  Estuaries 8(2a): 170-180.
Stone, J. H.  (ed.).  1980.  Environmental analysis of Lake Pontchartrain Louisiana, its surrounding wetlands, and selected land uses.  CEL, CWR, LSU, BR, LA 70803.  Prepared for U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans.  Contract No. DACW-29-77-0253.  2 vols.
Tarver, J. W., L. B. Savoie, and B. Barrett.  1976.  An inventory and study of the Lake Pontchartrain-Lake Maurepas estuarine complex.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull. (19): 1-159.
Wagner, F. and F. J. Monteferrante [eds.].  1983.  The Lake Pontchartrain/Lake Maurepas estuarine complex:  perspectives on its future.  LA Dept. Nat. Res., Baton Rouge.  53 pp.

DIGITAL:

Banbury, Mary M., Anne B. Rheams, Sue Ellen Lyons, Dinah F. Maygarden, Sharon Flanagan, and Michael C. Greene.  2007.  Lessons on the Lake:  An Educator’s Guide to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.  2nd Ed.  Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Metairie, LA. 
Maygarden, Dinah Forsyth.  See articles referenced above.  All are available for download from www.pies.uno.edu/education.
See www.pies.uno.edu/education for a number of posters on various Lake Pontchartrain topics.

RECREATION & ADVENTURING

Baxley, Janina.  2003.  50 Hikes in Louisiana.  Walks, hikes and backpacks in the Bayou State.  Backcountry Guides, Woodstock, Vt.  276 pp.
Butler, Anne.  2009.  Louisiana Swamp Tours.  The Definitive Guide.  Pelican Publ., Gretna, LA.  94 pp.
Herndon, Ernest.  2003.  Canoeing Louisiana.  Univ. Press Mississippi, Jackson.  209 pp.
Schueler, Donald G.  1986.  Adventuring Along the Gulf of Mexico.  The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Gulf Coast of the United States and Mexico from the Florida Keys to Yucatán.  Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.  325 pp.
Sevenair, John P. (ed.).  1980.  Trail Guide to the Delta Country.  New Orleans Group, Sierra Club, New Orleans.  151 pp.

REPTILES (see AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES above)

SEASHORE (see GULF OF MEXICO above)

Amos, William H. and Stephen H. Amos.  1985.  Atlantic & Gulf Coasts.  The Audubon Society Nature Guides.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  670 pp.
Britton, Joseph C. And Brian Morton.  1989.  Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin. 
Fotheringham, Nick and Susan Brunenmeister.  1989.  Beachcomber’s Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life.  Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, & Texas.  Gulf Publ., Houston, TX.  142 pp.
Fox, William T.  1983.  At the Sea’s Edge.  An Introduction to Coastal Oceanography for the Amateur Naturalist.  Prentiss Hall Press, New York.  317 pp.
Gosner, Kenneth L.  1979.  A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore.  Peterson Field Guide.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  329 pp.
Heard, Richard.  1982.  Guide to common tidal marsh invertebrates of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.  Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.  Pub. no.:  MASCP-79-004.
Kaplan, Eugene H.  1988.  A Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores.  Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Caribbean.  Peterson Field Guide Series.  Houghton Miflin, Boston.  425 pp.
Meinkoth, Norman A.  1981.  Field Guide to Seashore Creatures.  North America.  National Audubon Society.  A. A. Knopf, New York.  813 pp.
Miner, Roy Waldo.  1950.  Field Book of Seashore Life.  G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York.  888 pp.
Proctor, Noble S. and Patrick J. Lynch.  2011.  A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico.  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Ct.  384 pp.
Rothschild, Susan B.  2004.  Beachcomber’s Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life.  Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.  3rd ed.  Taylor Trade Publ., New York.  179 pp.
Ruppert, Edward E. and Richard S. Fox.  1988.  Seashore Animals of the Southeast.  Univ. South Carolina Press, Columbia.  429 pp.
Schueler, Donald G.  1986.  Adventuring Along the Gulf of Mexico.  The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Gulf Coast of the United States and Mexico from the Florida Keys to Yucatán.  Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.  325 pp.
Trefil, James S.  1984.  A Scientist at the Seashore.  Collier Books.  208 pp.  0-02-025920-4.

SOIL

Lowenfels, Jeff and Wayne Lewis.  2010.  Teaming with Microbes.  The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web.  Rev. Ed.  Timber Press, Portland.  220 pp.
Meyer, John R.  1994.  Kwik-key to Soil-dwelling Invertebrates. Vision Press, Raleigh, NC.  43 pp.
Nardi, James B.  2007.  Life in the Soil.  A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners.  Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.  293 pp.
Wolfe, David W.  2001.  Tales from the Underground.  A Natural History of Subterranean Life.  Perseus Publ., Cambridge, MA.  221 pp.

SPIDERS

Beccaloni, Jan. 2009. Arachnids.  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.  320 pages.
Bradley, Richard A.  2013.  Common Spiders of North America.  Univ. California Press, Berkeley.  271 pp.
Discovery Channel.  2000.  Insects and Spiders.  An Explore Your World Handbook.  Discovery Books, New York.  192 pp.
Beccaloni, Jan. 2009. Arachnids.  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.  320 pages.
Discovery Channel.  2000.  Insects and Spiders.  An Explore Your World Handbook.  Discovery Books, New York.  192 pp.
Evans, Arthur V.  National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America.  Sterling, New York.  497 pp.
Hedges, Stoy A. and Richard S. Vetter.  2012.  PCT Field Guide for the Management of Urban Spiders.  2nd ed.  GIE Media, Cleveland.  246 pp.
Herberstein, Marie Elisabeth [ed.].  2011.  Spider Behavior.  Flexibility and Versatility.  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K.  391 pp.
Howell, W. Mike and Ronald L. Jenkins.  2004.  Spiders of the Eastern United States.  A Photographic Guide.  Pearson Education, Boston, MA. 362 pp.
Kaston, B. J.  1978.  How to Know the Spiders.  3rd ed.  William C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa.  272 pp.
Levi, Herbert W. and Lorna R. Levi.  2002.  Spiders and their Kin.  Revised & Updated.  Golden Guide, St. Martin Press, New York.  160 pp.
Milne, Lorus and Margery Milne.  1980.  Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders.  National Audubon Society.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  989 pp.
Preston-Mafham, Ken.  1998.  Spiders.  A New Compact Study Guide and Identifier.  Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, N.J.  80 pp.
Ubick, D., P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing, and V. Roth [eds].  2005.  Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society, Keene, NH.  377 pp.
Vetter, Richard S.  2015.  The Brown Recluse Spider.Comstock Publ. Associates, Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY.  186 pp.
Wise, David H.  1993.  Spiders in Ecological Webs.  Cambridge Studies in Ecology.  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K.  328 pp.


SPIDER WEBSITES

pbase.com/tmurray74/arachnids_arachnids
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WETLANDS

Adams, R. D. et al.  1976.  Barataria Basin:  Geologic processes and framework.  Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR, 117 pp.
Anderson, R. and M. Rockel.  1991.  Economic valuation of wetlands.  Discussion paper #065.  Am. Pet. Inst.  60 pp.
Bahr, L. M., Jr., R. Costanza, J. W. Day, Jr., S. E. Bayley, C. Neill, S. G. Leibowitz, and J. Fruci.  1983.  Ecological characterization of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain region:  a narrative with management recommendations.  U. S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Div. Biol. Serv., Washington, D. C.  FWS/OBS-82/69.  189 pp.
__________ and J. J. Hebrard.  1979.  Barataria Basin:  Biological characterization.  Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR, 144 pp.
Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program.  1995.  Saving our good earth:  A call to action.  Barataria-Terrebone National Estuary Program Characterization Report.  62 pp.
Barrett, B. B. and M. C. Gillespie.  1973.  Primary factors which influence commercial shrimp production in coastal Louisiana.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull.  9:  1-28.
__________, J. L. Merrell, T. P. Morrison, M. C. Gillespie, and E. J. Ralph.  1978.  A study of Louisiana's major estuaries and adjacent offshore waters.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull.  27:  1-197.
Barry, John M.  1997.  Rising Tide.  The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.  Simon & Schuster, New York.  524 pp.
Carroll, David M.  1999.  Swampwalker’s Journal.  A Wetlands Year.  Houghton-Miflin Co., Boston, Ma.  292 pp. 
__________.  2009.  Following the Water.  A Hydromancer’s Notebook.  Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, Ma.  186 pp.
Carter, Hodding.  1942.  The Rivers of America.  Lower Mississippi.  Farrar & Rinehart Inc., New York.  467 pp.
Chabreck, R. H.  1972.  Vegetation, water and soil characteristics of the Louisiana coastal region.  LSU Argicul. Exper. Sta. Bull.  (664):  1-72.
Clipp, Amy.  1995.  Coast watcher's guide.  How to preserve and protect Louisiana's wetlands and coastal zone.  Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Baton Rouge.  35 pp.
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.  2000.  No Time to Lose.  Facing the Future of Louisiana and the Crisis of Coastal Land Loss.  Rev.  Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.  57 pp.
Costanza, R., C. Neill, S. G. Leibowitz, J. R. Fruci, L. M. Bahr, Jr., J. W. Day, Jr., and M. W. Young.  1983.  Ecological Models of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain region:  Data Collection and presentation.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv., Div. Biol. Serv., Washington, D. C. FWS/OBS-82/68.  342 pp.
Dugas, R. J.  1979.  Some observations on the post-construction effects of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet on Louisiana oyster production.  La. Dept. Wildl. Fish. Tech. Bull.  (28):  1-15.
__________ and W. S. Perret.  1975.  The effects of 1973 spring floodwaters on oyster populations in Louisiana.  Proc. 29th Ann. Conf. Southeast.  Assoc. Game-Fish Comm:  208-214.
Dunbar, J. B., L. D. Britsch, and E. B. Kemp III.  1990.  Land loss rates.  Report 2.  Louisiana Chenier Plain.  U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tech. Rept. GL-90-2
__________, __________, and __________.  1992.  Land loss rates.  Report 3.  Louisiana Coastal Plain.  U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tech. Rept. GL-90-2.
Gagliano, S. M. and J. L. van Beek.  1970.  Hydrologic and geologic studies of coastal Louisiana.  1.  Geologic and geomorphic aspects of deltaic processes, Mississippi Delta System.  Costal Resources Unit, Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR, 140 pp.
__________, H. J. Kwon, and J. L. van Beek.  1970.  Hydrologic and geologic studies of coastal Louisiana.  2.  Salinity regimes in Louisiana estuaries.  Coastal Resources Unit, Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR, 63 pp.
__________, H. J. Kwon, and J. L. van Beek.  1970.  Hydrologic and geologic studies of coastal Louisiana.  9.  Deterioration and restoration of coastal wetlands.  Proc. 12th Internatl. Conf. Coastal Engineering, 15 pp.
Gomez, Gay M.  1998.  A Wetland Biography.  Seasons on Louisiana’s Chenier Plain.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin.  270 pp.
__________.  2008.  The Louisiana Coast.  Guide to an American Wetland.  Texas A&M Univ. Press.
Gosselink, J. G., E. P. Odum, and R. M. Pope.  1974.  The value of the tidal marsh.  Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR (publ. no. LSU-SG-74-03), 30 pp.

Gould, H. R. and E. McFarlan, Jr.  1959.  Geologic history of the Chenier Plain, southwestern Louisiana.  Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. 9:261-270.
Houck, O. A.  1983.  Land loss in coastal Louisiana: causes, consequences, and remedies.  Tulane Law Rev. 58: 3-168.
__________.  1985.  Rising water:  the national flood insurance program and Louisiana.  Tulane Law Rev. 60: 61-164.
Jaworski, E.  1972.  The blue crab fishery, Barataria Estuary, Louisiana.  Center for Wetland Resources, LSUBR (LSU-SG-72-01), 112 pp.
Kane, Harnett T.  1944.  Deep Delta Country.  Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York.  283 pp.
Kazmann, R. G. and D. B. Johnson.  1980.  If the old river control structure fails?  (The physical and economic consequences).  La. Water Res. Research Inst. Bull. 12:  86 pp.
Kelley, J. T., A. R. Kelley, O. H. Pilkey, Sr., and A. A. Clark.  1984.  Living with the Louisiana shore.  Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC.  164 pp.
Kennedy, June C.  1991.  A view from the heart.  Bayou country ecology.  Blue Heron Press, Thibodaux, LA.  145 pp.
Larson, D. K. et al.  1980.  Mississippi Deltaic Plain Region ecological characterization:  a socioeconomic study.  Vol. I:  synthesis papers.  U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Off. Biol. Serv.  FWS/OBS-79/05, 368 pp.
Martinez, J. D.  1986.  Mississippi-Atchafalaya diversion:  a new perspective.  Bull. Assoc. Engineer. Geol.  23 (1):  93-100.
__________ and C. O. Durham, Jr.  1969.  Man and nature at odds in the delta.  Environmental Sci. & Tech. 3(Dec):  1252-1257. 
Maygarden, Dinah and Heather Egger.  2012.  Field-based educator’s guide to the Lake Pontchartrain Estuary.  Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, Coastal Education Program, University of New Orleans. (http://pies.uno.edu/documents/Field%20Trip%20Guide%20.pdf)
McPhee, John.  The Control of Nature.  1989.  Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York.  272 pp.
Morton, J. W.  1977.  Ecological effects of dredging and dredge spoil disposal:  a literature review.  U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Tech. Pap.  (94):  1-33.
Mumphrey, A. J. et al.  1978.  The value of wetlands in the Barataria Basin.  La. Dept. Transport. & Develop., Coastal Resources Prog., 151 pp.
National Research Council, Committee on Characterization of Wetlands.  1995.  Wetlands.  Characteristics and Boundaries.  National Academy Press, Washington, DC.  306 pp.
National Research Council.  2006.  Drawing Louisiana’s New Map.  Addressing Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana.  National Academies Press, Washington.  190 pp.
Penfound, W. T.  1952.  Southern swamps and marshes.  Bot. Rev. 18:313-336.
__________ and E. S. Hathaway.  1938.  Plant communities in the marshlands of southeastern Louisiana.  Ecol. Monogr. 8:1-56.
__________ and J. A. Howard.  1940.  A phytosociological study of an evergreen oak forest in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana.  Amer. Midl. Nat.  23: 165-174.
Penland, S., R. Boyd, D. Nummendal, and H. Roberts.  1981.  Deltaic barrier development on the Louisiana coast.  Suppl. Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc. 31:471-476.
__________, J. R. Suter, and R. Boyd.  1985.  Barrier island arcs along abandoned Mississippi River deltas.  Marine Geol. 63:197-233.
__________, W. Ritchie, R. Boyd, R. G. Gerdes, and J. R. Suter.  1986.  The Bayou Lafourche delta, Mississippi River delta plain, Louisiana.  Geol. Soc. Amer. Cent. Field Guide - SE Sec., pp. 447-452.
__________, J. Suter, and L. Nakashima.  1986.  Protecting our barrier islands.  La. Conserv. Jan/Feb: 22-25.
Shabman, L. A. and S. S. Batie.  1977.  Estimating the economic value of natural coastal wetlands:  a cautionary note.  Res. Rept. A. E. 30.  Virginia Sea Grant publ. VPI-SG-77-06.  21 pp.
Streever, Bill.   2001.  Saving Louisiana?  The Battle for Coastal Wetlands.  Univ. Press Mississippi, Jackson.  189 pp.
Twilley, Robert R., Eric J. Barron, Henry L. Gholz, Mark A. Harwell, Richard L. Miller, Denise J. Reed, Joan B. Rose, Evan H. Siemann, Robert G. Wetzel, and Roger J. Zimmerman.  2001.  Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region.  Union of concerned Scientists & the Ecological Society of America.  82 pp.
Van Beek, J. L. et al.  1981.  An introduction to the environmental literature of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain region.  FWS/OBS-79/30:  198 pp.
__________, D. Roberts, D. Davis, D. Sabins, and S. M. Gagliano.  1982.  Recommendations for freshwater diversion to Louisiana estuaries east of the Mississippi River.  Coastal Mgt. Sec., La. Dept. Nat. Res., 49 pp.
__________ and K. J.  Meyer-Arendt.  1982.  Louisiana's eroding coastline:  recommendations for protection.  Coastal Mgt. Sec. La. Dept. Nat. Res. 49 pp. and 31 pls.
Viosca, Percy.  1928. Louisiana wetlands and the value of their wild life and fishery resources.  Ecology 9(2):  216-229.
Wentz, W. A.  1981.  Wetlands values and management.  U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. and Environ. Protection Agency (U.S. Govt. Printing Off. 1981 0-346 801).  25 pp.
Wiygul, Robert and Amy Clipp.  1995.  Citizens' guide to Louisiana wetlands.  Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.  105 pp.

WEBSITES:

America’s WETLAND Resource Center, www.americaswetlandresources.com

DIGITAL PROGRAMS:

USGS.  Explore Coastal Louisiana with Boudreaux.
USGS.  Thibodeaux’s Treasure.  A children’s guide to coastal Louisiana wetlands.
See www.pies.uno.edu/education & www.btnep.org for a number of posters on various wetland topics.

WINTER ECOLOGY

Brown, Lauren.  1976 [1997].  Wildflowers and Winter Weeds.  W. W. Norton Co., New York.  252 pp.
Halfpenny, James C. and Roy Douglas Ozanne.  1989.  Winter.  An Ecological Handbook.  Johnson Books, Boulder, CO.  273 pp.
Heinrich, Bernd.  2003.  Winter World.  The Ingenuity of Animal Survival.  HarperCollins Publ., New York.  357 pp.
Marchand, Peter J.  1996.  Life in the Cold.  An Introduction to Winter Ecology.  3rd ed.  Univ. Press New England, Hanover.  304 pp.
Miller, Dorcas S.  1989.  Winter Weed Finder.  A Guide to Dry Plants in Winter.  Nature Study Guide Publ., Rochester, NY.  61 pp.
Stokes, Donald.  1976.  Stokes Guide to Nature in Winter.  Little, Brown & Co., Boston.  374 pp.
Teale, Edwin Way.  1965.  Wandering Through Winter.  Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.  370 pp.
Watts, May Theilgaard and Tom Watts.  1970.  Winter Tree Finder.  A Manuel for Identifying Deciduous Trees in Winter. Nature Study Guide Publ., Rochester, NY.  62 pp.

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