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Chapter Library

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 table at the monthly chapter meeting.

Updates from our Librarian, Linder O’Rourke

Blackland Prairie Chapter Library – New Additions

01/10/2025
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Check out the new additions to our chapter’s library.
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Message from our Librarian

10/30/2024

Attention BPC/TMN members! Please do not donate any new books without checking with the Chapter Librarian Linder Orourke or Training Director Nancy Casillas. The library…

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BPC Library Update Wish List

04/10/2024
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Below is a partial list of books suggested by Nancy Casillas, incoming Class Director of our chapter for 2024-25,…
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Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian

04/09/2025
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…
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Blackland Prairie Chapter Library – New Additions

01/10/2025
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Check out the new additions to our chapter’s library.
Read More

Message from our Librarian

10/30/2024

Attention BPC/TMN members! Please do not donate any new books without checking with the Chapter Librarian Linder Orourke or Training Director Nancy Casillas. The library…

Read More

BPC Library Update Wish List

04/10/2024
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Below is a partial list of books suggested by Nancy Casillas, incoming Class Director of our chapter for 2024-25,…
Read More

Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian

04/09/2025
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…
Read More

Blackland Prairie Chapter Library – New Additions

01/10/2025
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Check out the new additions to our chapter’s library.
Read More

Message from our Librarian

10/30/2024

Attention BPC/TMN members! Please do not donate any new books without checking with the Chapter Librarian Linder Orourke or Training Director Nancy Casillas. The library…

Read More

BPC Library Update Wish List

04/10/2024
Linder O’Rourke, Class of 2023 – Below is a partial list of books suggested by Nancy Casillas, incoming Class Director of our chapter for 2024-25,…
Read More

Book Reviews

Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian

04/09/2025
Linder Orourke, Class of 2023 – This story is one long tale of Kaufman’s obsession…
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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

11/04/2024
This classic of American environmental writing is not a book about the desert but an…
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Gathering Moss: A Book Review by the Chapter Librarian

08/12/2024

Gathering Moss: by Robin Wall Kimmerer A Book Review by the TMN Blackland Prairie Chapter…

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A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir: A Book Review

06/10/2024
 A Book Review by BPC Librarian, Linder O’Rourke – A Thousand Mile Walk to the…
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Toxic Plants of Texas Book Cover

Toxic Plants

04/24/2024
Susan Abernethy, Class of 2018 – My HOA asked me to assist them in identifying…
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BLACKLAND PRAIRIE MASTER NATURALIST LIBRARY LIST
TITLEAUTHOR
A Botanist’s Vocabulary                    Pell and Angell
A Dazzle of DragonfliesMitchell
A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers 1Holloway
A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers 2Holloway
A Feathered River Across the SkyGreenberg
A Guide to Freshwater EcologyTx Commission
A Hummingbird in My HouseHeidcamp
A Management Guide to Invasive PlantsMiller
A Natural History of OwlsEverett
A Natural State- Essays of TexasHarrigan
A Plague of FrogsSouder
A Sand County AlmanacLeopold
A Sand County AlmanacLeopold
Adventures of a Frontier NaturalistLincecum
Adventures with a Tx Naturalist 1Bedichek
Adventures with a Tx Naturalist 2Bedichek
Against the Grain: AgricultureManning
American Women AfieldBonta
An Introduction to OrnithologyWallace
Audubon Guide to Wildlife Refuges SW 1Gibson
Audubon Guide to Wildlife Refuges SW 2Gibson
Audubon’s Birds of AmericaDock
Back Roads of TexasThollander
Big SnakeTwigger
The Biology of Lakes and PondsBronmark and Hansson
Birding Trails of Tx Gulf CoastFoster
Birds of Tx Field GuideTekiela
Bringing Nature Home 1Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home 2Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home 3Tallamy
Buffalo Bird Woman’s GardenWilson
Buffalo for the Broken HeartO’Brien
Butterflies and Moths: DKTaylor
Butterfly BookStokes
Chasing Neotropical BirdsThornton
Desert Solitaire 1Abbey
Desert Solitaire 2Abbey
Dragonflies and Damselflies TXAbbott
Endangered and Threatened AnimalsCampbell
Exploring the Edges of TxDavis
Field & Forest Guide Native LandscapeScott
Field Guide Outdoor Plants SW 1Roach
Field Guide Outdoor Plants SW 2Roach
Field Guide to Birds N AmericaNat’l Geo
Field Guide to Birds of N. AmericasKaufman
Field Guide to Birds of TxPeterson
Field Guide to TreesSimpson
Field Guide to Trees Eastern RegionNat’l Aud Soc
Field Guide to Tx TreesSimpson
Field Guide:  Texas SnakesTennant
For the Love of Wild PlacesDimijian
For the Love of Wild Places 2Dimijian
Fresh Air FiendTheroux
Gifts of the WildZwinger
Goodbye to a RiverGraves
Guide to Field ID: Trees N AmericaGolden Book
Guide to Night SoundsElliott
Hawks and EaglesSutton
Hot HouseStrom
Hummingbirds of TexasShackleford
Illumination in the FlatwoodsHutto
Inherit the HuntPosewitz
John Muir: An AutobiographyBrennan
Last Child in the WoodsLouv
LIfe in the TreetopsLowman
Milkweed, Monarchs and MoreOberhausen
On the Wing:  Peregrine FalconTennant
One Man’s OwlHeinrich
Oxford Dictionary Earth SciencesAllaby
Peterson Field Guide Eastern BirdsPeterson
Peterson First Guides:  CaterpillarsWright
Prairie TimeWhite
Prairie Time 2White
Range Plants of N Central TexasLinex
Ranger ConfidentialLankford
Remarkable Plants of TexasTurner
Roadside Geology of TxSpearing
Roy Bedichek’s Vanishing Frontier CDBedicheck
Sharing Nature with ChildrenCornell
Sharing the Wonder of Birds with KidsErickson
Silent SpringCarson
Stearns Dictionary Plant NamesStearns
Texas FossilsMatthews
Texas Game WardenWood
Texas Nature and Environmental Centers GuideMoulton
Texas Natural HistorySchmidly
Texas Master Naturalist (textbook)Haggerty/Meuth
Texas WeatherBowmar
Texas WildPhelan
The Backyard Naturalist 1Tufts
The Backyard Naturalist 2Tufts
The Bats of TexasSchmidly
The Big YearObmascik
The Blossom of the BoughDowden
The Calls of Frogs and Toads CDElliott
The Cast Iron ForestFrancaviglia
The Encyclopedia of Herbs and HerbalismStuart
The Forest UnseenHaskell
The Grasses of TexasGould
The Hidden Life of Trees 1Wohlleben
The Hidden Life of Trees 2Wohlleben
The Illustrated Book of TreesGrimm
The Leafcutter AntsHolldobler
The Mammals of Tx Bulletin 41Davis
The Mammals of Texas Online Edition (Thanks Jean Suplick for posting this link)Davis
The Soil Will Save UsOhlson
The Sixth ExtinctionKolbert
The Wind MastersDunne
Trees of TexasStahl
Water from StoneGreene
Wesley the OwlO’Brien
Where the Sky BeganMadison
Wild Guide DragonfliesBerger
Wildflowers of TexasEason
Wildlife and Man in TexasDoughty
Winter Tree FinderWatts
Winter WorldHeinrich
Your Remarkable RiparianNueces

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