Below are a number of resources, ranging from favorite books to nature journaling tools and more!

Nature Journaling Downloadables – Below are free downloadable resources. These are for personal, non-commercial use only.

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Recommended Books

• The Genius Of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
• What An Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
• Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie
• Eager by Ben Goldfarb 
• Flight Paths by Rebecca Heisman
• Beaverland by Leila Philip
• Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
• Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben 

Apps – these are a few that I use for identification and tracking

• Merlin from Cornell Lab – https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ 
• eBird – https://ebird.org/home 
• iNaturalist – https://www.inaturalist.org/ 

Recommended Nature Journaling Tools

• Graphite Pencils – I like Staedtler 
• Micron Pens – start with black ink, but also available in light cool grey, dark cool grey, and sepia
• Journal – I like Canson Mixed Media. Choose a material based on your needs. I like 5.5”x8.5” because it fits easily in my bag.
• Eraser – I like Staedtler Polymer Erasers
• Bonus Items
  • Prismacolor Non-Photo Blue Pencils – really nice for sketching light lines
  • Colored Pencils – I use Faber Castell Polychromos
  • Watercolor – I have been using Koi Watercolors (they have a good travel size kit) with a waterbrush, though I recently started using eco-friendly paints from Beam Paints