Wildland Sentinel

Erika Billerbeck

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In America's Midwest, where "wilderness" is in short supply, working to defend what's left of Iowa's natural resources can be both a daunting and an e... Lees meer

Iowa Railroads

H Roger Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Frank P. Donovan was one of the first writers to provide a complete exploration of the major steam railways that served Iowa. This collection of Donov... Lees meer

Sarah's Seasons

Martha Moore Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• "Have you ever kept a diary?" With that question author Martha Davis sets out on her journey into the quietly remarkable life of an Old Order Amish wo... Lees meer

Booming from the Mists of Nowhere

Greg Hoch

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• For ten months of the year, the prairiechicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of... Lees meer

Gardening in Iowa and Surrounding Areas

Veronica Lorson Fowler

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• On the East Coast, so the story goes, newcomers are asked where they come from; on the West Coast they are asked what they do for a living; in Iowa pe... Lees meer

Harker's One-Room Schoolhouses

Paul Theobald

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In Harker's Barns documentary photographer Michael Harker captured the glory and the decay of one of rural America's most elemental icons. Now in Hark... Lees meer

Iowa's Archaeological Past

Lynn M Alex

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Iowa has more than eighteen thousand archaeological sites, and research in the past few decades has transformed our knowledge of the state's human pas... Lees meer

A Watershed Year

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size--flowing in places at a rate ... Lees meer

Gardening the Amana Way

Lawrence L Rettig

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Gardening in Iowa's Amana Colonies is the culmination of techniques that stretch back several centuries to central Europe, when adherents to a new fai... Lees meer

The Indians of Iowa

Lance M Foster

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Covers archeology, history, and culture of different native nations that have called Iowa home since prehistory. This book focuses on the tribes most ... Lees meer

The Tallgrass Prairie Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former ... Lees meer

A Woodland Counting Book

Claudia McGehee

• Hardcover | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Helps children learn about the woodland family. From the white oaks that tower overhead to shelter the woodland citizens to the delicate showy lady's-... Lees meer

Visits with the Amish

Linda Egenes

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Who are the "plain people," the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and telep... Lees meer

Gentlemen on the Prairie

Curtis Harnack

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In the 1880s, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie,... Lees meer

Central Standard

Patrick Irelan

• Hardcover | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In Central Standard: A Time, a Place, a Family, Patrick Irelan vividly recaptures a remarkable era in midwestern history in twenty-four beautifully cr... Lees meer

Between Urban and Wild

Andrea M Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In her calm, carefully reasoned perspective on place, Andrea Jones focuses on the familiar details of country life balanced by the larger responsibili... Lees meer

Hidden Prairie

Chris Helzer

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Chris Helzer illustrates the beauty and diversity of prairie through an impressive series of photographs, all taken within the same square meter of pr... Lees meer

Out of This World

Mary Swander

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a fo... Lees meer

A Sugar Creek Chronicle

Cornelia F Mutel

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• In 2010, while editing a report on the effects of climate change in Iowa, ecologist Cornelia Mutel came to grips with the magnitude and urgency of the... Lees meer

Heart Stays Country

Gary Lantz

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Writer and photographer Gary Lantz has always felt most at home in what the Osage used to call the "heart stays" country--the southern edge of the Fli... Lees meer

Letters of a German American Farmer

Johannes Gillhoff

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by students who had emigrated to northeastern Iowa from Mec... Lees meer

All Is Leaf

John T Price

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Drawing inspiration and urgency from the storied Goethe Oak tree at Buchenwald concentration camp--and from the leaf as symbol of all change, growth, ... Lees meer

A Year of Iowa Nature

Carl Kurtz

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Every Sunday evening for almost ten years, Iowa photographer and naturalist Carl Kurtz has e-mailed a photo and an extended caption to hundreds of out... Lees meer

The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory

Michael J Lannoo

• Paperback | Engels | Bur Oak Book
• Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that pr... Lees meer