Book Category: Natural Resources & Land Use

Book Category: Natural Resources & Land Use

• McCrephy’s Field
  FictionMyers, C. and Myers, L.B. 1991. Houghton Mifflin & Com. Category(ies): Environmental Issues, Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Cycles, Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants, Prairie, Stewardship, Wildlife – Keywords: change over time
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• Natural Resource Conservation: An Ecological Approach
  Non-FictionOwen, O.S. 1980. Mac Millan Publishing Co., Inc. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Woodland Ecology: Environmental Forestry for the Small Landowner
  Non-FictionMinkler, L.S. 1980.  Syracuse University Press. Category(ies): Forest/Trees, Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants – Keywords: landowner resource
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Ecology of Missouri Forests
  Non-FictionJackson, J. 1984. Missouri Department of Conservation. Category(ies): Forest/Trees, Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants – Keywords: landowner resource
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Conservation Management of Natural Resources in the United States
  Non-FictionBennett, C.F. 1983. John Wiley & Sons. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: landowner resource
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Woodland Stewardship – a Practical Guide for Midwestern Landowners
  Non-FictionBaughman, M.J., Alm, A.A., Eiber, T.C. and Blinn, C. 1993. Minnesota Extension Service. Category(ies): Insects & Inverts, Natural Resources & Land Use, Stewardship – Keywords: landowner resource
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees
  Non-FictionLittle, E.L. 1987. Knopf. Category(ies): Forest/Trees, Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants – Keywords: field guide
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Wildlife Management Techniques Manual
  Non-FictionThe Wildlife Society, Inc. 1980. The Wildlife Society, Inc. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Trends in Wildlife Populations and Harvest
  Non-FictionIowa Department of Natural Resources. 2016. Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Iowa Hunting and Trapping Regulations
  Non-FictionIowa Department of Natural Resources. 2016. Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• White-tailed Deer Population Management in the North Central States
  Non-FictionHine, L. and Nehls, S. 1980. North Central Section of the Wildlife Society. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Landscaping for Wildlife
  Non-FictionHenderson, C.L. 1987. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• The Ring-necked Pheasant in Iowa
  Non-FictionFarris. A.L. 1977. Iowa Conservation Commission. Category(ies): Birds, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Streamside Forests: The Vital, Beneficial Resource
  Non-FictionKundt, J. 1988. University of Maryland Cooperative Extension. Category(ies): Forest/Trees, Natural Resources & Land Use, River/Riparian, Soil, Water Quailty – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Vegetative Filter Strips
  Non-FictionAnon. 1988. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Category(ies): Environmental Issues, Natural Resources & Land Use, Pond/Lake, River/Riparian, Soil, Water Quailty, Wetlands – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Riparian Buffer systems in Crop and Rangelands
  Non-FictionSchults, R.C., Isenhart, T.M. and Colletti, J.R. 1995. Agroforestry and Sustainable Systems: Symposium Proceeding p. 13-27. Category(ies): Environmental Issues, Forest/Trees, Natural Resources & Land Use, River/Riparian, Soil – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation
  Non-FictionU.S. Department of the Interior. 1992. U.S. Department of the Interior. Category(ies): Fish, Fishing, Habitats & Ecosystems, Mammals, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• An American Crusade for Wildlife
  Non-FictionTrefethen, J.B. 1975. Boone and Crocket Club. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Mammals, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting
  Non-FictionPosewitz, J. 1994. Falcon Publishing, Incorporated. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Mammals, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: hunter ethics
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• A Home for Pearl Video and Teacher’s Guide
  Non-FictionWestervelt E. and M.O. 1990. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Category(ies): Birds, Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Common Cents for Wildlife
  Non-FictionIowa Department of Natural Resources. 2001. Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords:
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Attracting Backyard Wildlife
  Non-FictionIowa Department of Natural Resources. 2001. Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use, Urban Environment, Wildlife – Keywords: urban wildlife
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Management of Nongame Wildlife in the Midwest: A Developing Art
  Non-FictionHale, J.P. et al. 1986. North Central Section of the Wildlife Society. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Wildlife Management on Your Own Land
  Non-FictionCadieux, C. L., 1985. Stakpole Books. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: wildlife management
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• What is a Watershed?
  Non-FictionPex, D.R. 1994. America Clean Water Foundation. Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Pond/Lake, River/Riparian, Urban Environment, Water Quailty, Wetlands – Keywords: watershed
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Paddle-to-the-Sea
  Fiction

  Holling, C. 1980. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Nature Exploration, Wildlife – Keywords: geography
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• H is for Hawkeye
  Non-Fiction

  Wagner, J. and E. P. Dawson. 2003. Trails Books.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Nature Exploration – Keywords: Iowa
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Numbers in a Row: An Iowa Number Book
  Non-Fiction

  Pierce, P. A. and D. Rohner. 2006. Sleeping Bear Press.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: Iowa
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Animals and the Environment
  Non-Fiction

  Boothroyd, J. 2008. Lerner Publishing Group.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: animals & the environment
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• The Magic School Bus At the Waterworks
  Fiction

  Cole, J. and B. Degen. 1988. Scholastic, Inc.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Water Quailty – Keywords: water use
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
  Fiction

  Kamkwamba, W., and B. Mealer. 2010. William Morrow.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Stewardship, Weather – Keywords: wind
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Let’s Save Water!
  Non-Fiction

  Nelson, S.A., G. Saunders-Smith, and K.M. Krebs. 2006. Capstone Press, Inc.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Stewardship – Keywords: water
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Rocks and Minerals (Audubon Society First Field Guide Series)
  Non-Fiction

  Ricciuti, E. 1998. Scholastic, Inc.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Soil – Keywords: rocks & minerals
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Eve and Smithy: An Iowa Tale
  Fiction

  Edwards, M. 1994. HarperCollins Publishers.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants – Keywords: Iowa
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Precious Water
  Fiction

  Weininger, B. and A. Moller. 2003. North-South Books.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords:
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A.
  Fiction

  Priceman, M. 2008. Random House Childrens Books.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: natural resources
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Tulip Sees America
  Fiction

  Rylant, C. and L. Desimini. 2002. Scholastic, Inc.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: geography
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• No More Water in the Tub
  Fiction

  Arnold, T. 1995. Puffin Books

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: water
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
  Non-Fiction

  Taback, S. 2000. Penguin Group.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: natural resource use
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• What’s So Bad About Gasoline?: Fossils Fuels and What They Do
  Non-Fiction

  Rockwell, A.F. and P. Meisel. 2009. Collins.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: fossil fuel
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• H is for Hawkeye: An Iowa Alphabet
  Non-Fiction

  Pierce, P. and B. Langton. 2003. Sleeping Bear Press.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Iowa
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Oil to Gas
  Non-Fiction

  Murray, J. 2006. ABDO Publishing Company.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords:
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• From Oil to Gas
  Non-Fiction

  Mitgusch, A. et al. 1981. Lerner

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: fossil fuel
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Materials
  Non-Fiction

  Gifford, C. 2008. Roaring Brook Press.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: natural resources
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• People Change the Land
  Non-Fiction

  Bauer, D. 2003. Coughlan Publishing.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: people and land
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• From Oil to Gas
  Non-Fiction

  Zemlicka, S. and S. Knudsen. 2003. Lerner Publishing Group.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: fossil fuel
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• The Story of Johnny Appleseed
  Non-Fiction

  Aliki. 1971. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: people and land
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Agatha’s Feather Bed: Not Just Another Wild Goose Story
  Fiction

  Deedy, C.A. and L.L. Seeley. 1994. Peachtree Publishers.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: natural resources
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Henry David’s House
  Non-Fiction

  Schnur, S., H.D. Thoreau and P.M. Fiore. 2002. Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.

  Category(ies): Famous Conservationists, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: people
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Erosion
  Non-Fiction

  Rutten, J. 1998. Child’s World, Incorporated.

  Category(ies): Environmental Issues, Natural Resources & Land Use, Soil – Keywords: erosion
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Air: Outside, inside, and All Around
  Non-Fiction

  Stille, D.R. 2004. Capstone Press.

  Category(ies): Environmental Issues, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: air pollution
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States
  Fiction

  Hopkins, L. B. and S. Alcorn. 2000. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.

  Category(ies): Environmental Writers, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: geography, poems
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• The Lorax
  Fiction

  Dr. Seuss. 1971. Random House Books for Young Readers.

  Category(ies): Earth Day, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords:
  Age Group: Pre K-2nd grade
  
  
• Environmental Experiments about Land
  Non-Fiction

  Rybolt, T.R. 1993. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: land use
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Iowa – Portrait of the Land
  Non-Fiction

  Prior, J.C. and L.A. Stone. 2000. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Iowa's landscape, natural resource reference
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• A Prairie Garden : Seventy Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country
  Non-Fiction

  Smith, J. R., and Smith, B. S. 1980. New York: University of Wisconsin P.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use, Plants, Prairie – Keywords: natural resource reference, prairie gardens
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Iowa
  Non-Fiction

  Morrice, P. A. and J. Hart. 2007. Cavendish, Marshall Corporation.

  Category(ies): Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Iowa, natural resource reference
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Iowa’s Wild Places
  Non-Fiction

  Kurtz, C. 1996. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

  Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Iowa's landscape, natural resource reference
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Iowa: Portrait of the Land
  Non-Fiction

  Iowa Department of Natural Resources. 2000. Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

  Category(ies): Habitats & Ecosystems, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Iowa's landscape, natural resource reference
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• Silent Spring
  Non-Fiction

  Carson, R. 2002. Houghton Mifflin Company.

  Category(ies): Environmental Writers, Famous Conservationists, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: Rachel Carson
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• A Sand County Almanac
  Non-Fiction

  Leopold, A. 1989. Oxford University Press.

  Category(ies): Environmental Writers, Famous Conservationists, Natural Resources & Land Use, Wildlife – Keywords: Aldo Leopold, natural resource reference
  Age Group: Parents & educators
  
  
• John Muir: Nature Writings
  Non-Fiction

  Muir, J. 1997. Penguin Group.

  Category(ies): Environmental Writers, Famous Conservationists, Natural Resources & Land Use – Keywords: John Muir
  Age Group: Parents & educators