Stuff we like…
Philly Area Places and Organizations
- Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers
- Friends of the Wissahickon
- Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association
- Roxborough/Manayunk Conservancy
- Green Philly
- Philadelphia Botanical Club
- Philadelphia Mineralogical Society
- Delaware Valley Ornithological Club
- Friends of Pennypack Park
- Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
- John Heinz Wildlife Refuge
- Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center
- Fairmount Waterworks
- Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
- Morris Arboretum
- Awbury Arboretum
- Bartram’s Garden
- Philadelphia Mycology Club
- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Wagner Free Institute of Science
- The American Entomological Society
- Natural Lands
- Now That’s Wild
- A Child’s Inspiration: Wildlife Discovery Garden
- NaturePHL
Websites & Apps
Books
- The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States by Janine M. Benyus
- Ecology of Center City by Ken Frank
- Philadelphia Trees by Edward Barnard
- Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
- Bugs Rule! by Whitney Cranshaw & Richard Redak
- Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America by Eric R. Eaton
- Wildlife of Pennsylvania and the Northeast by Charles Fergus
- Last Child in the Woods and/or The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
- Birds of Pennsylvania Field Guide by Stan Tekiela
- Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania by Joseph F. Merritt
- Butterflies through Binoculars: The East by Jeffrey Glassberg
- The Kingdom of Fungi by Jens H. Petersen
- The Field Herping Guide by Mike Pingleton
- The Geological Story of Pennsylvania (PDF) DCNR and Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey
- A Field Guide to Common Grasses of Southeastern Pennsylvania by Elkins Wetherill and Janet Ebert