Books and articles

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Monmonier, Mark. "The Rise of the National Atlas," in John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim, ed., Images of the World: The Atlas through History, pp. 369-99. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997.
Perlin, John. A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Robinson, Arthur. Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Schwartz, Seymour and Ralph Ehrenberg. The Mapping of North America. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980.
Terrie, Philip. Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks. Blue Mountain and Syracuse, NY: The Adriondack Musuem/Syracuse University Press, 1999.
Terrie, Philip. Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Online resources

• Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps, Compiled by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn (University of California-Berkeley Library) provides links to a variety of maps relating to the United States and other parts of the world: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html
• U.S. Forest Service: http://www.fs.fed.us/
• Land Use History of the United States, United States Geological Survey: http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap2.html
• USGS [United States Geological Survey] - NPS [National Park Service] Vegetation Mapping Program includes aerial photographs and maps for a variety of U.S. national parks: http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/

Maps of current woodlands and vegetation cover, United States

• The National Atlas of the United States of America (Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1970), pp. 154-59. (Maps of natural vegetation and land use)
• Percent Area Having Tree Cover, 1992 (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service): http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/meta/m2325.html
• Percent of Non-Federal Area in Forest Land, 1992 (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service): http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/meta/m2098.html
• Percentage of Land per County Recorded in the 1987 Census of Agriculture as Being Woodland (Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville): http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/catalog/national/html/
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natural landscapes across the United States

1. desert, NM. Courtsey of Jesse Markow.
2. Everglades, FL. Courtsey of the National Park Service.
3. wetlands, NC. Courtsey of Richard and Patricia Hanf.
4. savanna, WI. Dr. Virginia Kline photo, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin - Madison plant image collection.
5. coniferous forest, WA. Ellen Williams photo, courtsey of Port of Chelan County, WA.
6. prairie, KS. Courtsey of the National Park Service.

1. wood burning stove. The New American Stove Trade Card. Courtsey of Hagley Museum and Library.
2. corduroy road in Vermont. Harry Fenn, "Corduroy Bridge, Mount Mansfield Road" in William Cullen Bryant, Pituresque America (New York, 1874).
3. sawmill near St. Paul. "North Western Mills of Hersey, Bean and Brown" in A.T. Andreas, An Illustrated Atlas of the State of Minnesota, 53 (Chicago, 1874).
4. loading lumber at Puget Sound. "Washington-Loading Lumber on Puget Sound" in West Shore-An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 66, 1887.
5. ship building in Boston, MA. Wade, "Ship-building at East Boston" in Ballou's Pictorial, 8 (19 May 1855).
6. cabin in woods, New York. Orasmus Turner, Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, 1849.
7. tapping trees for turpentine, North Carolina. John Andrew, "North Carolina" in Ballou's Pictorial (12 May 1855).

Grades K-2 Resources

• images of landscapes across the United States (See Supplemental Images)

Grades 3-5 Resources

• web sites of timber and paper companies. Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms does not endorse the site or operations of any timber or paper company. Some examples of sites are: Georgia Pacific: http://www.gp.com/forestry/index.html; Weyerhaeuser: http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/
• your local historical society web site
• information on Kirtland's warbler: http://www.macatawa.org/~oias/kirtland.htm
• Maps of current woodlands and vegetation cover, United States (see Supplemental Images)
• images of nineteenth-century uses of wood (see Supplemental Images)

Grades 6-8 Resources

• Adirondack Park website: http://www.northnet.org/adirondackparkagency/
• Project Wild: http://www.projectwild.org
• Nature Conservancy link: http://nature.org/
• Role cards

Grades 9-12 Resources

• Statistical Abstract of the United States, http://www.census.gov
• Yellowstone National Park, http://www.nps.gov/yell/
• Bandelier National Monument, http://www.nps.gov/band/
• Congressional Record, http://thomas.loc.gov