Guides

Learn to Identify Trees in Michigan! With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identifica...

Identify constellations in the night sky with this pocket-size guide. You can appreciate stars and enjoy stargazing! If you’re curious about the ni...

Transform your garden into a haven for all kinds of wildlife! In a world with too much concrete and not enough greenery, every wildlife-friendly ga...

Identify Michigan mammals with this easy-to-use field guide, featuring full color photographs of each animal.  With Stan Tekiela’s famous field gui...

Kaufman Field Guide To The Insects Of North America is a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating...

Introduce children to geoscience (including a study of the Earth, rock formation, and landforms) in this fun guide that includes hands-on education...

Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one t...

The ultimate must-have guide for identifying migrant raptors, Hawks at a Distance is the first volume to focus on distant raptors as they are truly...

Part of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs—scenes t...

Get your coloring pencils ready for this wild Woodland Coloring Book from Petit Collage. Color in the woodland scenes featuring playful rabbits, bu...

From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the mal...

Introduce children to 10 common animals—and their babies—that live on the prairie with this wildlife-themed board book. Board books ...

Introduce children to the fascinating world of nature! Floppers & Loppers features simple text and award-winning photography by ...

Peepers & Peekers features simple text and award-winning photography by Stan Tekiela. This board book allows readers to gaze int...

Wildflowers of the Midwest is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of the region. This m...

With the recent decline of the European honey bee, it is more important than ever to encourage the activity of other native pollinators to keep you...

This book looks at the Kirtland’s warbler and wildlife conservation in a way that no other book has. It looks back on the history of this unique b...

The Midwest Birding Companion is the perfect tool for birding enthusiasts in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missou...

One of the Great Lakes region’s most precious natural resources is its fishery, with its intricate web of aquatic life, the environments it inhabi...

Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management...

If you buy one tree guide this year, this should be it. Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees is the must-have referen...

Michigan offers some of the most wonderfully diverse recreation opportunities in the country. The Michigan Eco-Traveler is for a new and growing b...

Michigan’s ferns and lycophytes are among the state’s most fascinating plants. The species in these groups exhibit incredibly diverse l...

The Great Lakes are home to an impressive variety of fish. The Guide to Great Lakes Fishes describes sixty-two of the region's most co...