Suggested Reading on
Biodiversity and Saving Species

A Sand County Almanac. Aldo Leopold, Oxford University Press, New York, 1952.

Biodiversity. Ed E.O. Wilson. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1988.

Conserving the World's Biological Diversity. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Washington, D.C., 1990.

Environmental Quality: 22nd Report of the Council on Environmental Quality. March 1992.

Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of Disappearance of Species. Paul and Anne Erlich. Random House, New York, 1981.

Plant Extinction: A Global Crisis. Dr. Harold Koopowitz and Hilary Kaye. Stone Wall Press, Washington, D.C., 1983.

The Preservation of Species. Ed. Bryan Norton. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1986.

The Diversity of Life. E.O. Wilson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992.

Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth╒s Living Resources, World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman & Hall, London, 1992.

Global Biodiversity Assessment. United Nations Environmental Programme. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1995.

Washington Department of Natural Resources. 1993. State of Washington natural heritage plan: 1993, 1995 update. 191pp. Olympia.

Washington Department of Natural Resources. 1994. Endangered, threatened and sensitive vascular plants of Washington. Department of Natural Resources. Olympia. 52p.

Illustration by Joyce Bergen. © Copyright 1996, The Nature Conservancy.