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Join the Methow Conservancy's Natural History Book Club!
4th Monday of each month at our office in Winthrop

Love natural history?  Love books?  Then you'll love our Natural History Book Club!  Sure the Methow Valley already has lots of book clubs, but this one is unique. The Natural History Book Club formed in March 2006 to Fall color at a conservation easement on the Chewuch Riverread and discuss a wide variety of ecology, wildlife and conservation-related literature ranging from the classics to new offerings. The Book Club is open to any reader any month so read when you can and enjoy an evening discussion when you are available.

Participants help choose the books and suggestions are always welcome.  The book discussion is held on the 4th Monday of the month at 6:00 pm at the Methow Conservancy office at 315 Riverside in Winthrop.  If you would like to be reminded of the current book and discussion date, or have a book suggestion or review, email Mary at info@methowconservancy.org and ask her to add you to the email list.

Copies of the books we read are available through Trail's End Bookstore, the Winthrop and Twisp public libraries, and other sources.

Our Current Selection

June 2nd: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen

Previous Reads:
March, 2006
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
April, 2006
The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Grasslands by Marcy Cottrell Houle
May, 2006
The Beast in the Garden by David Baron
June, 2006
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
July, 2006
Summer Break! - no book club
August, 2006
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
September, 2006
Flames in our Forest by Stephen Arno and Steven Allison-Bunnell
October, 2006
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik
November, 2006
Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer.
December, 2006
Holiday Break - no book club
January, 2007
Winter World - The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, by Bernd Heinrich
February, 2007
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest by M. Wylie Blanchet
March, 2007
A River Lost  by Blaine Harden
April, 2007
Living on the Wind, Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Wiedensal
May, 2007
Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
June - Aug, 2007
Summer Break! - no book club
September, 2007
The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass
October, 2007
The River Why by David James Duncan
 
November, 2007
Round the Next Bend: Pendleton, Walla Walla and the Transformation of the Rural West,” a lecture by Donald Snow.  This lecture is online at http://oregonhum.org/pdf/round-the-next-bend.pdf. 
 
December, 2007
Holiday Break - no bookclub
 
January, 2008
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
 
February, 2008
Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet. 
 
March, 2008
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E.C. Pielou
 
April, 2008
Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild by Ellen Meloy
 
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