Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

The Ecology Book Club was originally developed as a capstone project for a group of Cedar Creek Master Naturalists in 2017. Since then, it has grown into a lively group that meets monthly to discuss and dissect books related to environmental issues. Fiction, non-fiction, heavy, light — we read it all!

• An Immense World by Ed Yong
• The Wild Life of Our Bodies by Rob Dunn
• South Pole Station: A Novel by Ashley Shelby
• For Love of Lakes by Darby Nelson
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• Half Earth by E.O. Wilson
• The Sixth Extinction by Rachel Kolbert
• Conservation on the Northern Plains by Anthony Amato
• The Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris
• The Life and Death of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
• The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
• A Love Affair with Birds by Sue Leaf
• Climate, A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
• A Naturalist At Large by Bernd Heinrich
• The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
• Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
• The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
• Deep Woods, Wild Waters: A Memoir by Douglas Wood
• The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation, by Fred Pearce
• Listening Point by Sigurd Olson
• Our Native Bees by Paige Embry
• Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans de Waal
• The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
• Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird by Katie Fallon
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Wild and Rare-Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest by Adam Regn Arvidson
• The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
• Rising by Elizabeth Rush
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• The Big Marsh by Cheri Register
• Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. Plotkin
• Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell by Susan Leaf
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology by Margaret D. Lowman
• The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark. J. Plotkin
• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen
• Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
• Wolf Island by David Mech
• Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
• Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
• The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas W. Tallamy
• Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
• This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
• The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
• Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
• Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght (with visit by the author!)
• The Book of Hope – A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
• The Marsh Builders:  The Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife, by Sharon Levy, Karen White, et al.
• The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Millman
• A World Without Soil: The Past, Present & Precarious Futerr of the Earth Beneath our Feet by Jo Handelsman and Kayla Cohen
• The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
• Summer World by Bernd Heinrich
• Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Jill Bolte Taylor
• The Secret Life of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Understood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle
• The Journeys of Trees, A Story About Forests, People, and the Future by Zach St. George