Recommended reading on nature-related topics from librarians at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.

Restoring Prairie, Woods, and Pond
By: Laurie Lawlor 

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"A small rural Wisconsin community restores publicly-owned land that has become a dumping ground into a nature trail joining an elementary school and the public library and crossing three distinct ecosystems.” 

Frogs
By: Itzue Wendolin Caviedes-Solis 

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"A gripping story set over 24 hours where readers will come face-to-face with the most amazing frogs and toads in the world, written by expert Dr. Itzue W. Caviedes-Solis"-- 

Turtle Walk 
By: Matt Phelan 

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Spring blooms, and a turtle family is on the move. Slow and steady, they travel up, up, up, the gentle hill through all four seasons. Where are they going? To the top of the sledding hill, of course! But how will they get back down the hill to a well-deserved winter’s rest--Amazon.com. 

Rewilding 
By: Paul Jepson & Cain Blythe

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Rewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature. As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement, and enabling a growing number of people to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves. 'De-domesticated' horses galloping across a Dutch 'Serengeti'; beavers creating wetlands in the British countryside; giant tortoises restoring the wildlife of the Mauritian islands; perhaps one day even rhinos roaming the Australian outback — rewilding is full of exciting and inspirational possibilities. 

Wetlands
By: Hollie Endres 

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Wetlands are complex features of Earth that contain a wide variety of life. Readers will learn about the different kinds of wetlands, the animals that live in wetlands, and how wetlands help people. 

Pocketguide to Eastern Wetlands
By: T. Travis & Shanda Brown 

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More than 200 plants, trees and shrubs, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds commonly found in eastern wetland habitats are, featured in this detailed field guide.