Please note: These books are usually available at your local bookstores or used bookstores since they are not textbooks per se. You will also be able to locate new or used copies of many of these via online booksellers such as amazon.com or half.com or barnesandnobel.com, which are only three of many online book sellers. A NATURAL HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA is the main book you will be reading during the semester. The rest of the selections are guidebooks to certain groups of organisms, such as trees or birds or flowers; so, in some cases, you may have a choice from several available guidebooks, and you can choose the one you prefer; or you may already have one that can replace one of my suggestions.

ISBN: 0520069226 A Natural History of California (California Natural History Guides) (Paperback) by Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher: University of California Press

ISBN: 0395910951 A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers: Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent areas (Peterson Field Guides(R))
(Paperback) by Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper (Illustrator), Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 2Rev Ed edition (January 15, 1998)

ISBN: 0679451218The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America (Turtleback) by David Allen Sibley
Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (April 29, 2003)

ISBN: 0912550279Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees (Nature Study Guides) 
(Paperback) by Tom Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers; 2nd edition (December 2004)

ISBN 0-912550-16-3 Pacific Coast Mammals: A Guide to Mammals of the Pacific Coast States, Their Tracks, Skulls, and 
Other Signs by Ron Russo
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers

ISBN: 0-89886-532-8 Mac's Field Guide To California Coastal Invertebrates
(A Laminated Card)

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