Books/References

Identification

• Weeds of the Northeast  Richard H. Uva  with Joseph C. Neal and Joseph M. Ditomaso. Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-801-48334-4.
• How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants: Sedges and Rushes
  Harold David Harrington. Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN: 0-804-00746-2.
• Shrub Identification Book, George W. Symonds. Morrow, William & Co., 1980. ISBN: 0-688-05040-9.
• Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern, North-Central America, 2nd ed. Roger Tory Peterson, Margaret McKenny, 
  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. ISBN: 0-395-91172-9.
• Tree Identification Book George W. D. Symonds. Morrow,William & Co, 1972. ISBN: 0-688-05039-5.
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide : An Ingenious New Key System for Quick, Positive Field Identification of the Wildflowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines of N, Vol. 1, Lawrence Newcomb, Gordon Morrison. Little, Brown & Company, 1989. ISBN: 0-316-60442-9
• Grasses: An Indentification Guide. Lauren Brown. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. ISBN: 0-395-62881-4.
• Plants in Wetlands. Charles B. Redington. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1994. ISBN: 0-840-38983-3.
• Wildlife and Recreationists: Coexistence through Management and Research, Richard L. Knight (Editor) Kevin J. Gutzwiller (Editor). Island Press, 1995. ISBN: 1-559-63258-5. 
• Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States. Bruce A. Stein (Editor) Lynn S. Kutner (Editor), Jonathan S. Adams (Editor), Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-19-512519-3.
• In Search of Swampland : A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide, Ralph W. Tiner. Rutgers University Press,1998, ISBN: 0-8135-2506-3.
• New York Metropolitan Flora, Woody Plant Workbook 1999, BBG (in TC library) 

Other

• Wildlife-Habitat Relationships: Concepts and Applications. Michael A. Morrison with Bruce G. Marcot and R. William Mannan. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-299-15640-0.
• Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Tom Wessels, Countryman Press, 1997, ISBN 0-881-50378-9.
• Greenways, A Guide to Planning, Design, and Development, Charles A. Flink & Robert M. Searns, Island Press, 1993, ISBN 1-55963-136-8 .
• Bright, J.A. 1986. Hiker impact on herbaceous vegetation along trails in an evergreen woodland of central Texas. Biological Conservation 36:53-69.
• Hall, C.N., and F.R. Kuss. 1989. Vegetation alteration along trails in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Biological Conservation 48:211-227.
• Tyser, R.W. and C.A. Worley. 1992. Alien flora in grasslands adjacent to road and trail corridors in Glacier National Park, Montana (U.S.A.). Conservation Biology 6:253-262.
• The Role of Recreation in the Extirpation of Alpine Plant Species in the Northeastern United States, by Peter F. Zika of New York Natural Heritage Program
• Impacts of Trails on Cliff-edge Forest Structure by Pampang Parikesit, Douglas W. Larson, and Uta Matthes-Sears (Canadian)
• Erosional Impact of Hikers, Horses, Motorcycles, and Off-Road Bicycles on Mountain Trails in Montana by John P. Wilson and Joseph P. Seney in International Mountain Society and United Nations University [flawed from the point of view of hikers since it does not consider skidding]
• Biotic Fragmentation by Forest Roads, Black Rock Forest Consortium Winter 1999. [about beetles].
• Rockefeller report on condition of State Parks
• Rivers and Trails, Integrating natural values and recreational use, Greenspace, NY Parks and Conservation Association, Spring 2000.
• Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning, William B. Honachefsky, Lewis Publishers, 1999. ISBN 1566704065. Review
• The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Tim Flannery, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001, ISBN 0-87113-789-5. Review
• Reading the Earth: Landforms in the Making, Jerome Wyckoff, Adastra West, Incorporated, October 1999.