We Love Field Guides!

We love field guides! There’s a whole world out there to be explored and field guides offer a way to learn about it all!

Our Muddy Sneakers field instructors often use field guides to help identify plants or animals on expeditions. This blog post by Cool Green Science shares our love of field guides!

Here are some of our staff favorites:

A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates in North America by J. Resse Voshell

A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas by Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, and Michael W. Hopping

Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America by David Allen Sibley

A great guide for kids to start on: Peterson’s first guides