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Quotations from Meriwether Lewis are from The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Bernard DeVoto, ed. 1953. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
p. 13 “This is a necessary . . .” Dorn, Robert D. 2001. Vascular Plants of Wyoming. 3rd Ed. Cheyenne: Mountain West Publishing.
“folk taxonomy . . .” Cotterill, F. P. D., et al. 2014. “Why One Century of Phenetics is Enough: Response to ‘Are There Really Twice As Many Bovid Species As We Thought?’” Systematic Biology 63(5): 819–832.
p. 15 “It may be more fruitful . . .” Money, Nicholas P. 2013. “Against the Naming of Fungi.” Fungal Biology 117: 463–465.
p. 52 “this bombshell study” Van Mantgem, P. J., et al. 2009. “Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States.” Science 323: 521–524
p. 57 McCarthy, Steve. 2009. “The Pursuit and Pleasures of the Pure Spirit.” New York Times, 13 March 2009.
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p. 86 Muir, John. 1894. The Mountains of California. Many editions available.
p. 102 “When the boat touches . . .” Henry Marie Brackenridge, Views of Louisiana. Quoted in McKelvey, Susan Delano. 1991. Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1790–1850. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
p. 103 Maximilian, Prince of Wied and Neuwied, quoted in McKelvey, op cit.
p. 156 Karl A. Geyer quoted in McKelvey, op cit.
p. 180 Guenther, Erna. 1973. Ethnobotany of Western Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
p. 205 Gorham, John, and Liz Crain. 2013. Toro Bravo. San Francisco: McSweeney’s.
p. 257 Thanks to Steve Dupey for sleuthing the false ID.
p. 297 “Occasionally a semiporous . . .” Campbell, Alsie, and Jerry F. Franklin. 1979. “Riparian Vegetation in Oregon’s West Cascade Mountains.” Bulletin 14, Coniferous Biome. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
p. 305 “the crunch of collapsing . . .” Shaw, C. G., and G. A. Kile, eds. Armillaria Root Disease. USDA FS Agr. Handbook No. 691.
p. 316 “odor like dirty gym socks . . .” Bessette, Alan. 1997. Mushrooms of Northeast North America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
p. 319 “It was as shocking . . .” Wang, L. 2001. “Fungi Slay Insects and Feed Host Plants.” Science News, April 7, 2001. The study was Klironomos, John N., and Miranda M. Hart. 2001. “Animal Nitrogen Swap for Plant Carbon.” Nature 410: 651–52.
p. 341 Verts, B. J., and Leslie Carraway. 1998. Land Mammals of Oregon. Berkeley: University of California Press.
p. 350 Townsend, John Kirk. 1839. Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River. (Reprinted 1999. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.)
p. 402 Welch, Lew. 2012. Ring of Bone: Collected Poems. Expanded Edition. San Francisco: City Lights.
p. 413 Snyder, Gary. 1999. Lookout’s Journal (1952) in The Gary Snyder Reader. New York: Counterpoint.
p. 429 “A recording is available . . .” Kroodsma, Donald E. 2005. The Singing Life of Birds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
p. 434: “Birds don’t do it . . .” Sly and Robbie with Bootsy Collins. 1987. Rhythm Killers (music LP).
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p. 463 James and Nunnallee, in Recommended Books, p. 551.
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p. 536 “All mountains walk . . .” Dōgen (1240). Mountains and Waters Sutra, trans. Arnold Kotler and Kazuaki Tanahashi, in Moon In a Dewdrop: writings of Zen master Dōgen. 1985. San Francisco: North Point.
p. 536 Keeping Track was published in a somewhat different form in Convolvulus (Victoria, BC).