Everyone loves a banana slug! Grab one of these charming yellow Banana Slug pencils for your next sketching session or your math homework. Designed locally by a State Parks Interpreter!
Plants of the Coast Redwood Region
This classic, locally-beloved field guide is an excellent resource for the Santa Cruz area. Bring it along on your next hike in the Forest of Nisene Marks, Butano, or Henry Cowell, and see how many plants you can identify!
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This book is a field guide to plants commonly found in the coast redwood forests. Full color photographs of each plant are accompanied by descriptive and informative text. Wildflowers are grouped by color, which helps to simplify identification of the plants. Interesting information regarding edible plants, and the many uses Native Americans made of the plants is also included.
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
This comprehensive, beautiful book contains everything you need to get started with Nature Journaling.
Never drawn before? That’s OK! John Muir Laws is an incredible teacher, and his detailed, step-by-step instructions will have you sketching realistic poppies, birds, and leaves before you know it.
This book also includes great information on art and journaling supplies & techniques, and how to think like a naturalist and an artist.
This is a book that will open up your world for years and years to come.