This charming pencil set celebrates some of our favorite local State Parks and Beaches! Each set features six sturdy pencils: Seacliff State Beach, the Forest of Nisene Marks, the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, Natural Bridges State Beach, and Wilder Ranch State Park.
Field Guide – the California Naturalist’s Handbook
The California Naturalist Handbook provides a fun, science-based introduction to California’s natural history with an emphasis on observation, discovery, communication, stewardship and conservation. It is a hands-on guide to learning about the natural environment of California. Subjects covered include California natural history and geology, native plants and animals, California’s freshwater resources and ecosystems, forest and rangeland resources, conservation biology, and the effects of global warming on California’s natural communities. The Handbook also discusses how to create and use a field notebook, natural resource interpretation, citizen science, and collaborative conservation and serves as the primary text for the California Naturalist Program.
Rainbow Mushroom Washi Tape
This bright and beautiful roll of washi tape will add color to your nature journal, wrapped gifts, class notes, or wherever you need a touch of mushroom magic.
This washi tape roll measures 20mm x 10m.
Northern California Nature Guide by Erin McCloskey
One of our favorite field guides! Beautifully illustrated and easy to peruse, this guide to Northern California’s wild diversity of life is great for kids and curious adults.
People who live in Northern California have access to a dramatic variety of landscapes, climates and biodiversity. Marine and coastal zones, rugged mountains, humid forests, wild backcountry, grasslands, sagebrush scrublands, deserts, streams and lakes all contribute to its unique, scenic wonders and ecological grandeur. Conservation International defines the California Floristic Province—the area of California west of the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Range—as a world biodiversity hotspot, owing to an unusual concentration of endemic plants. Of approximately 8000 plant species in the geographic region, about half are endemic. Many areas of Northern California, especially in the mountains, have been protected, and the significance of that foresight is inestimable.
Lone Pine’s newest field guide – the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NATURE GUIDE – is a handy aid for area residents and visitors alike in identifying the animals and plants you’ll find when visiting Northern California’s great outdoors. The book features 267 types of animals and 117 plants found in the region. Each species is portrayed by an accurate hand-drawn color illustration. Accompanying text presents the common and scientific names of the species, descriptions of size and other identifying characteristics, natural history and fascinating facts, and where you can expect to find that species.
The book is conveniently organized by color-coded categories: mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, fish, invertebrates, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses and ferns.
Rainbow Sketch Pad
This portable sketchpad is our newest obsession. Use the attached stylus to etch bright, cheerful rainbow designs onto each page! Perfect for kids of all ages (including adults).
Each pad contains 60 thick, perforated black-coated pages and a wooden stylus.
Draw the Great Outdoors by Harrison How
Local author Harrison How has published a fun and easy guide to creating beautiful ink drawings of your favorite outdoor spots, from redwood forests to tidepools to beach dunes and more. Drawing outside is a wonderful way to calm your mind and learn to appreciate the little details in your favorite parks.
Explore all the beauty nature has to offer with 20 awe-inspiring land and seascape sketches. In this accessible, step-by-step guide, artist and nature enthusiast Harrison How shows you how to effortlessly capture the ancient wonders of the world in stunning panoramas. Harness the tenacious spirit of the arid deserts as you form Ever Shifting Sand Dunes. Hear the call of the wild as you chart the weathered rock and eroded slopes of the world’s most dramatic mountain peaks with Majestic Volcanos or Cliffs and Rocky Ranges. Unearth the mysteries that hide beneath the waves in Otherworldy Tide Pools.
Harrison breaks the most complicated scenes into mini-tutorials so you can master every detail with ease. You’ll also learn how to seamlessly layer everything together from the smallest shrubs to the largest canyons for picture-perfect drawings. No matter your age or skill level, all you need is a pen to bring the outdoors to life.
Tidepool Watercolor Pencils
24 artist- quality watercolor pencils packed in a beautifully illustrated box. Add water to achieve brilliant results! These pencils are perfect for any outdoor art adventure.
Tree Pencil Set
Add a touch of arboreal flair to your office supplies with this lovely set of tree bark pencils! Each set comes with 6 wooden #2 pencils.
Animal Tracks Pencil Set
This charming set of pencils features the tracks of raccoons, foxes, owls, bears, and bobcats! Each set contains six wooden #2 pencils.
The Fylling Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
Get to know some of of your less familiar wild neighbors with this beautifully-illustrated field guide!
In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling’s full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling’s guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life—with occasional dalliances; squirrel teeth grow about six inches per year; spiders owe their characteristic creep to their “hydraulic” legs; poison oak and poison ivy’s itch-inducing oil is also found in pistachios, cashews, and mangoes; and much, much more.