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National Geographic Society

By Kenneth Browler

200 Pages

Published 1998. ISBN 0-7922-3650-5

This book describes the rugged and natural beauty of our National Forests with many colorful and breathtaking photos and maps.

Available through Amazon  with 3^rdparty sellers.

By Timothy Egan

324 pages

Published 2009. ISBN 978-0-547-39460-2

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men — college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. 

THE BIG BURN tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time.

Available at Powell's City of Books

By Rachel Carley
208 pages
Published 1998. ISBM 0-684-84422-2

A log cabin in the woods is one of America's most cherished icons -- a dream shared around the world. As the stress level of city life rises, more and more of us are imagining our own cottages far away from traffic lights and urban distractions. Cabins in the wilderness have never gone out of style, because the rustic life is a simple, rewarding one rooted in the traditions of the great outdoors. 

Featuring rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture, Cabin Fever visits more than two dozen charming retreats old and new, large and small, in the mountains and along the water, from the wilds of New York out to the wild, wild West. Author Rachel Carley explains where our love for the rustic comes from and shows the amazingly varied guises in which it appears today.

Available at Powell's City of Books

The Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway

By Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis

250 Pages

Published 2003. ISBN 978-1-56158-644-8

"The Cabin is our heart's retreat" write the authors, and what a wonderful place to escape to. Building on the theory that less is more, The Cabin takes this idyllic retreat from mind's eye to reality—with striking photographs and ample charm.

In this one-of-a-kind book, you'll discover an amazing array of design styles and materials—from sticks and stones to sheet metal and glass. You'll find 37 inspirational cabins from all over the country showing how people are building, reclaiming and transforming this unique American dwelling. The Cabin celebrates the appeal of this unique form or retreat, providing inspiration and practical ideas for realizing your own cabin dream.

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cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private Hideaway

By Dale Mulfinger

250 Pages

Published 2008. ISBN 978-1-56158-948-7

Wouldn't life be a whole lot better if somewhere out in the wild woody yonder sat a snug little cabin with your name on the mailbox? You know it would. If you have a cabin dream, this book is your ticket to making it real. With Cabinology as your map and architect and cabinologist Dale Mulfinger as your guide, you'll know the best way to approach every decision, from choosing a site for a new cabin, to remodeling an old one, to getting exactly the right fireplace for melting away all that ails you.  Cabinology doesn't just guide you, it keeps you inspired. Throughout are photos of cabins small and large, great details and design tips, stories from other cabin owners around the country, and clever insights into getting a cabin of your own.

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Echo Lake Reflections, A Photographic and Historical Journey

By Peter Caldwell (cabin owner)

176 Pages

Published 2004. ISBN 0-9626124-2-1

This stunning book captures the beauty of this unique High Sierra location and also goes back in time to its early days in a wonderful collection of over 160 color and 140 black and white images. It also includes a wealth of fascinating Echo Lake lore with family stories and accounts of historical interest.

Available at Alibis

Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests: A photographic Interpretation of Ecological Change since 1849

By George E. Gruell

238 Pages

Published 2001. ISBN 0-87842-446-6

Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests examines the woodlands through repeat photography: rephotographing sites depicted in historical photographs to compare past vegetation to present.

Available at Amazon

Fire Season

By Miles Wilson
170 Pages
Published 2014. ISBN 978-1622880485

Fire Season is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California and working throughout the West in the mid-1960s. A significant presence in the West, the US Forest Service is little treated in fiction. Many readers have no exposure to the role of the Forest Service in firefighting beyond some gauzy notion of smokejumpers, lookouts, and Smokey the Bear. Yet since WW II, tens of thousands of seasonal firefighters have been the primary line of defense against forest fires of increasing ecological, economic, and human cost.  Fire Season focuses on the paradigm for fire crews, an elite hotshot crew specially trained for explosive California chaparral fires. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of one of these crews,  Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world— an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history— and, therefore, the human history—of the West.

Available at Powell's City of Books

From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty: A Memoir

By Thad Box (cabin owner)
Pages 383
Published 2001. ISBN 978-1401030216

This book describes Thad Box’s four-part journey from sharecropping through a career as aspiring rancher, educator, resource ecologist and environmentalist. The Cocoon of Love and Poverty, explores the influence of family, traditions, the Great Depression and rocky Texas hills on his basic values. Breaking from the Cocoon, discusses the broadening world opened by military service and college education. Spreading My Wings, examines development of philosophies of learning and service. Flying Like a Butterfly, demonstrates application of those philosophies. Written primarily for family, this gripping memoir should be read by anyone concerned with the environment and social justice.

Available at Xlibris Bookstore

High Country Summers: The Early Second Homes of Colorado, 1880–1940

By Melanie Shellenbarger

288 Pages

Published 2012. ISBN 978-0816529582

High Country Summers considers the emergence of the "summer home" in Colorado's Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. It offers a welcome new perspective on anoften-overlooked dwelling and lifestyle. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that Colorado's early summer homes were not only enjoyed by the privileged and wealthy but crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender. They offered their inhabitants recreational and leisure experiences as well as opportunities for individual re-invention—and they helped shape both the cultural landscapes of the American West and our ideas about it.

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Inheritance Tug-of-War Stories

-Including Cabinosity

By Peter McClellan & Kelly Schackman

114 Pages

Published 2011. ISBN 978-0-615-36556-5

A collection of inheritance stories based on true situations observed or told to the authors. Following each story are provocative questions and legacy building tips to help you start thinking about your own estate or your parents' estate and how to take actions to lead your family in unity.Refer to the chapter Cabinosity on how to deal with a family cabin.

Available at Amazon

The Olympic Rain Forest, An Ecological Web

By Jerry Franklin

176 Pages

Published 1992. ISBN 0-295-97187-8

The forest of the northwest coast of North America accounts for two thirds of the world's temperate-zone rain forest, which is a fraction of the size of the more publicized tropical rain forest but is currently being lost at a comparable rate. Coming at a time of public concern and controversy regarding the future of the forest, this book provides a fresh examination of the natural dynamics that have produced the remarkably lush growth characterizing roughly two thousand miles of coast from Coos Bay, Oregon, to the gulf of Alaska―a stretch of greater north-south ecological sameness than exists anywhere else on earth. The rain forest valleys of Washington's Olympic Peninsula stand out…..

Available at Amazon

Saunders Meadow: A Place Without Fences

By Dr. Robert Reyes (cabin owner)

362 Pages

Published 2016. ISBN 978-1-63413-910-6

On March 4, 1915, with the prompting and support of the US Forest Service, Congress passed the Occupancy Act. This Special Use Permit allowed private citizens the opportunity to occupy national forest or public domain lands for a certain period of time for family recreation summer homes, campgrounds, resorts, and stores.

Author Dr. Robert Reyes provides readers with the first comprehensive collection of facts and details on the Term Occupancy Permit Act of 1915, includes information about registering his cabin as a National Historic Place and the process of a land exchange.

Available at Amazon

Silver Springs

By Jennifer Bausch (cabin owner)

236 Pages - fiction

Published 2014. ISBN 9781483529721

Ben and Edie McCormack worked their whole lives, trying to save up enough money to raise their two daughters and have a little left over for their retirement. But the market crash wiped out their savings and what little was left was swept away by the housing crisis, leaving them with a home in foreclosure and nowhere to go. So they decide to become camp hosts at the Silver….

Available at Goodreads  (ebook only)

Star Island: A Minnesota Summer Community

By Carol Ryan (cabin owner)

256 pages

Published 2000. ISBN 978-188065418

This is an oral history of an unusual Minnesota summer vacation community, Star Island, located on an island in Cass Lake, in northern Minnesota, and only inhabited during the summer.

Most summer communities are known for their famous residents or magnificent architecture. Star Island has neither, but instead is a homogeneous, middle-class log-cabin development whose residents are attracted by the wilderness, the recreational facilities and the healthy environment. This book is about the importance of place in developing family character.

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The Stations of Still Creek

By Barbara J Scot (cabin owner)

204 Pages

Published 1999. ISBN 978-1578050420

The Stations of Still Creek is the tale of a woman's personal journey and the healing inspiration she finds in the natural settings surrounding her. In a quest for personal and creative truth, Barbara Scot moves to her country cabin at Still Creek, in a National Forest preserve in the shadow of Mount Hood, to be still and thoughtful, in spite of the turmoil of a strained marriage.

Observing the stations over time, Scot experiences a rebirth—a letting go of past disappointments. Her deep communion with nature and attachment to the Stations are at the heart of her journey. Beautifully written and rich with natural detail, The Stations of Still Creek examines issues that many women (and men) are facing today: the compromises in a marriage, the breakdown of one's own body; the death of friends; and the choices everyone must make in a lifetime.

Available at Amazon

A Stroll Up The Canyon

By Karen Kinney Norton (cabin owner)
265 pages

Published 2009. ISBN 978-0-9823315-0-7

After retiring from 26 years as the Head of School at The Independent School in Wichita, KS, Karen Norton embarked upon a journey to tell the history of the Holy Ghost Canyon in New Mexico where her family's cabin is located.

Available from the author at norton75@swbell.net

Toward A Natural Forest: The Forest Service in Transition

By Jim Furnish

215 Pages

Published 2015. ISBN 978-0-87071-813-7

Jim Furnish joined the U.S. Forest Service in 1965, enthusiastic and naive, proud to be part of such a storied and accomplished agency. Nothing could have prepared him for the crisis that would soon rock the agency to its foundation, as a burgeoning environmental movement challenged the Forest Service’s legacy and legitimacy.

The Forest Service stumbled in responding to a wave of lawsuits from environmental groups in the late 20th Century—a phenomenon best symbolized by the spotted owl controversy that shut down logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The agency was brought to its knees, pitted between…….

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The U. S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest: A History

By Gerald W. Williams

Foreword by Mike Dombeck, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, 1997–2001.

448 pages.

Published 2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-572-3

The Northwest has been at the forefront of forest management and research in the United States for more than one hundred years. In The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest, Gerald Williams provides an historical overview of the part the Forest Service has played in managing the Northwest’s forests.

Emphasizing changes in management policy over the years, Williams discusses the establishment of the national forests in the region, grazing on public land, the Great Depression, World War II, and the rise of multiple-use management policies.

Available at OSU Press

Water and the Forest Service

By James Sedell; Maitland Sharpe; Daina Apple; Max Copenhagen; Mike Furniss

36 Pages

Published 2000. ISBN 978-1479315031

Public concern about adequate supplies of clean water led to the establishment in 1891 of federally protected forest reserves. The Forest Service Natural Resources Agenda is refocusing the agency on its original purpose. Forests are key to clean water. About 80 percent of the Nation’s scarce freshwater resources originate on forests, which cover about one-third of the Nation’s land area. Use and development of the water resources of the United States underwent major changes during the 19th century in response to the growing demands of a population that had increased nearly 20-fold since the founding of the country.

Available online at Treesearch  (for free) or for purchase at Amazon.

White Out

By Vella Munn (cabin owner)

311 Pages - fiction

Published 2006. ISBN 978-1-41995484-9

The lives of four people with very different agendas converge at their remote mountain cabins.

For the brother and sister, these few days offer them an opportunity to drag their childhood out of its hiding place and struggle to come to terms with their nightmarish upbringing. Most of all, they seek the courage to reach out to each other, to finally become true siblings.

For the professional athlete, nothing matters beyond escaping the spotlight, facing the end to his career, and trying to find a purpose for the future. He brings a woman with him, a quiet beauty who hides incredible strength beneath her perfect body and resolutely keeps her heart locked away from more damage.

Available at Barnes & Noble

By Cheryl Strayed (cabin owner)

315 Pages

Published 2012. ISBN 9781483529721

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

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