The Blackland Prairie chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists program has a fairly extensive library available for its members. See the list below and visit the table at the monthly chapter meeting.
Updates from our Librarian, Linder O’Rourke
Blackland Prairie Chapter Book Club Details – 2026 Dates
Blackland Prairie Chapter Book Club Details for the 4th Tuesday in January, March and May, from 6-7 p.m. Attendees should arrive a few minutes early…
Blackland Prairie Chapter Book Club Details – Fall of 2025
Blackland Prairie Chapter Book Club Details – Fall meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, October 15 and Wednesday, December 17, from 6-7 p.m. Attendees should arrive…
Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian
Linder Orourke, Class of 2023 – This story is one long tale of Kaufman’s obsession with birds and the magic he experienced when finding rare…
Book Reviews
Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian
Linder Orourke, Class of 2023 – This story is one long tale of Kaufman’s obsession…
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
This classic of American environmental writing is not a book about the desert but an…
Gathering Moss: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian
Gathering Moss: by Robin Wall Kimmerer A Book Review by the TMN Blackland Prairie Chapter…
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir: A Book Review
A Book Review by BPC Librarian, Linder O’Rourke – A Thousand Mile Walk to the…
Toxic Plants
Susan Abernethy, Class of 2018 – My HOA asked me to assist them in identifying…
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| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Botanist’s Vocabulary | Pell and Angell |
| A Dazzle of Dragonflies | Mitchell |
| A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers 1 | Holloway |
| A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers 2 | Holloway |
| A Feathered River Across the Sky | Greenberg |
| A Guide to Freshwater Ecology | Tx Commission |
| A Hummingbird in My House | Heidcamp |
| A Management Guide to Invasive Plants | Miller |
| A Natural History of Owls | Everett |
| A Natural State- Essays of Texas | Harrigan |
| A Plague of Frogs | Souder |
| A Sand County Almanac (Copy 1) | Leopold |
| A Sand County Almanac (Copy 2) | Leopold |
| Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist | Lincecum |
| Adventures with a Tx Naturalist 1 | Bedichek |
| Adventures with a Tx Naturalist 2 | Bedichek |
| Against the Grain: Agriculture | Manning |
| American Women Afield | Bonta |
| An Introduction to Ornithology | Wallace |
| Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Wildlife | Mizejewski |
| Audubon Guide to Wildlife Refuges SW 1 | Gibson |
| Audubon Guide to Wildlife Refuges SW 2 | Gibson |
| Audubon’s Birds of America | Dock |
| Back Roads of Texas | Thollander |
| Big Snake | Twigger |
| Birding Trails of Tx Gulf Coast | Foster |
| Birds of Tx Field Guide | Tekiela |
| Bringing Nature Home 1 | Tallamy |
| Bringing Nature Home 2 | Tallamy |
| Bringing Nature Home 3 | Tallamy |
| Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden | Wilson |
| Buffalo for the Broken Heart | O’Brien |
| Butterflies and Moths: DK | Taylor |
| Butterfly Book | Stokes |
| Chasing Neotropical Birds | Thornton |
| Desert Solitaire 1 | Abbey |
| Desert Solitaire 2 | Abbey |
| Dragonflies and Damselflies TX | Abbott |
| Endangered and Threatened Animals | Campbell |
| Exploring the Edges of Tx | Davis |
| Field & Forest Guide Native Landscape | Scott |
| Field Guide Outdoor Plants SW 1 | Roach |
| Field Guide Outdoor Plants SW 2 | Roach |
| Field Guide to Birds N America | Nat’l Geo |
| Field Guide to Birds of N. Americas | Kaufman |
| Field Guide to Birds of Tx | Peterson |
| Field Guide to Trees | Simpson |
| Field Guide to Trees Eastern Region | Nat’l Aud Soc |
| Field Guide to Tx Trees | Simpson |
| Field Guide: Texas Snakes | Tennant |
| For the Love of Wild Places | Dimijian |
| For the Love of Wild Places 2 | Dimijian |
| Fresh Air Fiend | Theroux |
| Gardening for Butterflies | The Xerces Society |
| Gifts of the Wild | Zwinger |
| Goodbye to a River | Graves |
| Guide to Field ID: Trees N America | Golden Book |
| Guide to Night Sounds | Elliott |
| Hawks and Eagles | Sutton |
| Hot House | Strom |
| Hummingbirds of Texas | Shackleford |
| Illumination in the Flatwoods | Hutto |
| Inherit the Hunt | Posewitz |
| John Muir: An Autobiography | Brennan |
| Last Child in the Woods | Louv |
| Life in the Treetops | Lowman |
| Migration Mysteries | Rappole |
| Milkweed, Monarchs and More | Oberhausen |
| Nature Obscura | Brenner |
| Nature’s Best Hope | Tallamy |
| On the Wing: Peregrine Falcon | Tennant |
| One Man’s Owl | Heinrich |
| Oxford Dictionary Earth Sciences | Allaby |
| Peterson Field Guide Eastern Birds | Peterson |
| Peterson First Guides: Caterpillars | Wright |
| Prairie Time | White |
| Prairie Time 2 | White |
| Range Plants of N Central Texas | Linex |
| Ranger Confidential | Lankford |
| Remarkable Plants of Texas | Turner |
| Roadside Geology of Tx | Spearing |
| Roy Bedichek’s Vanishing Frontier CD | Bedichek |
| Sharing Nature with Children | Cornell |
| Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids | Erickson |
| Silent Sparks | Lewis |
| Silent Spring | Carson |
| Stearns Dictionary Plant Names | Stearns |
| Texas Fossils | Matthews |
| Texas Game Warden | Wood |
| Texas Master Naturalist (textbook) | Haggerty/Meuth |
| Texas Natural History | Schmidly |
| Texas Nature and Environmental Centers Guide | Moulton |
| Texas Weather | Bowmar |
| Texas Wild | Phelan |
| The Backyard Naturalist 1 | Tufts |
| The Backyard Naturalist 2 | Tufts |
| The Bats of Texas | Schmidly |
| The Big Year | Obmascik |
| The Biology of Lakes and Ponds | Bronmark and Hansson |
| The Blossom of the Bough | Dowden |
| The Calls of Frogs and Toads CD | Elliott |
| The Cast Iron Forest | Francaviglia |
| The Encyclopedia of Herbs and Herbalism | Stuart |
| The Forest Unseen | Haskell |
| The Grasses of Texas | Gould |
| The Hidden Life of Trees 1 | Wohlleben |
| The Hidden Life of Trees 2 | Wohlleben |
| The Illustrated Book of Trees | Grimm |
| The Joy of Bird Feeding | Carpenter |
| The Leafcutter Ants | Holldobler |
| The Mammals of Tx Bulletin 41 | Davis |
| The Mammals of Texas Online Edition | Davis |
| The Nature of Texas Flower Gardens | [Author Verify] |
| The Serviceberry | Kimmerer |
| The Sixth Extinction | Kolbert |
| The Soil Will Save Us | Ohlson |
| The Ultimate Guide to Hummingbirds | Birds & Blooms |
| The Wind Masters | Dunne |
| Trees of Texas | Stahl |
| Water from Stone | Greene |
| Wesley the Owl | O’Brien |
| Where the Sky Began | Madison |
| Wild Guide Dragonflies | Berger |
| Wildflowers of Texas | Eason |
| Wildlife and Man in Texas | Doughty |
| Winter Tree Finder | Watts |
| Winter World | Heinrich |
| Your Remarkable Riparian | Nueces |