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The Riverkeepers
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin
Foreword by Al Gore
Hardcover, 302 Pages

$25.00

A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the river they love. Interweaving the personal, philosophical, and political, the book is a timely call to action that will resonate across America as the backlash spearheaded by congressional leaders and their major corporate allies threatens to reverse the hard-won victories in environmental law and policy. It is an eloquent and essential reminder that environmentalism is really about defending democracy and our most basic rights as citizens.

Damming the Delaware : The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam
Richard C. Albert
Paperback, 212 Pages

$27.00, Signed By the Author

First published in 1987 and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book the following year, Damming the Delaware is the definitive study of two hundred years of water management history along the Delaware River. The history of the Tocks Island Dam Project is traced from an early 1783 anti-dam treaty, through the highly emotional environmental controversy in the 1970’s, to the historic Good Faith agreement of the 1980’s. The story involves the water politics of four states, two major US cities, and the federal government, plus the influence of the environmental movement over major public works projects.

Along the Delaware River
Richard C. Albert and Carrie E. Albert
Paperback, 128 Pages

$20.00, Signed By Richard Albert

The Delaware River has been home to steamboats and canoes, swimmers and fishermen, and shipyards and factories for generations. Recreation and industry have long coexisted along its changing banks. Along the Delaware River presents the Delaware River corridor – from Hancock, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, to the mouth of the Delaware Bay – at the beginning of the twentieth century. Postcards, many nearly a hundred years old, are used to show a river system that both resembles and differs greatly from the one we know today.

Canoeing the Delaware River
Gary Letcher
Paperback, 228 Pages

$17.00

Canoeing the Delaware River provides a mile-by-mile account of the Delaware’s course from where the East and West Branches meet in Hancock, New York, two hundred miles downstream to tidewater at Trenton, New Jersey. The book describes rapids, access area, and points of interest along the riverbanks. It is an invaluable resource to both the novice out for an afternoon paddle and the adventurer on a ten-day trip. In addition to guiding the way, the book portrays the people, places, and events associated with the river from its often turbulent and colorful past through present times.

Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments
Michael J. Caduto
Paperback, 276 Pages

$24.00

Designed specifically for the amateur naturalist and filled with hands-on projects and activities, Pond and Brook introduces readers to the intriguing world of freshwater life. Michael Caduto’s keen eye investigates all common freshwater environments, from wetlands and deep lakes to streams and vernal ponds. An important feature of the book is its holistic approach to both living and non-living components of freshwater environments, and how they fit together to weave an ecological whole. Readers will learn the unique properties of water, the basic principles vital to understanding aquatic life, and the origin of freshwater habitats.

The Plants of Pennsylvania
Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block
Illustrations by Anna Aniśko
Hardcover, 1061 Pages

$75.00

The Plants of Pennsylvania provides a means of positively identifying the more than 3,000 species of flowering plants, ferns, and gymnosperms native or naturalized to the Commonwealth. The manual includes keys to families, genera, and species; extensive diagnostic illustrations; scientific and common names; and data on distribution ranges, relative frequency, rare and endangered species, blooming and fruiting periods, taxonomic notes, and an illustrated glossary. Developed in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Flora Database project and compiled by botanists at the Morris Arboretum, the book is an authoritative, accessible, and indispensable guide to Pennsylvania’s plant life.

Professor Angelicus Visits the Big Blue Ball
L.B.B. Ward
Hardcover, 200 Pages

$12.97

A novel for "kids ages 3 to 93”, Professor Angelicus Visits the Big Blue Ball imparts a strong environmental message tempered by healthy doses of hope, respect for all and a refreshing new approach to handling that worst enemy of all - fear. This novel educates without preaching; entertains while respecting the children's intelligence; and motivates through fantasy. It will leave your kids and the kid in all of us thinking about the Earth and the rest of the universe as you never have before.

Tall Tales From the Watershed Uke Jackson	$15.00
Winner of the Parents Choice Award, this collection of children’s stories told by award winning storyteller Uke Jackson, Tall Tales From the Watershed will enchant children with its marvelous cast of characters. Jackson’s warm voice takes children on a magical tour of River prose and folk tales. Recommended for children aged 4-7.

Devastation on the Delaware
Mary A. Shafer
Paperback, 452 Pages

August 18-20, 1955: Three terrifying days and nights still remembered with awe in the Delaware River Valley. Record-breaking rainfall abruptly ended a withering drought, but the relief was short-lived. It was soon overshadowed by terror and destruction as massive floods tore away bridges and ripped houses from their foundations. Devastation on the Delaware follows the true stories of survivors and eyewitnesses to bring these events to chilling life. More than 100 historical photos and a dozen maps illustrate this definitive account of a tragic event that changed life in the Delaware Valley forever.

In Defense of Watersheds: Protecting Your Community From Flooding Without Dams
Includes case study, “The Demise of Dark Hollow Dam”
154 Pages

$15.00

Dams and regional detention basins are proliferating in an effort to control increased flooding in the Delaware River Watershed. Stormwater runoff from sprawling development is the root cause of much of our flooding, of more frequent and more severe drought conditions, and of a downward spiral in the health of our streams. This approach is not effective, economically viable, or even necessary. In Defense of Watersheds explains how nonstructural solutions and preventive conservation efforts work more effectively and provides a step by step guide on how to make better alternatives a reality in your community.

Stormwater Runoff: Lost Resource or Community Asset? A Guide to Preventing, Capturing and recovering Stormwater Runoff
238 Pages

$15.00

This handbook is a user-friendly guide to preventing, capturing and recovering stormwater, thereby reducing flooding and pollution. Citizens, decision-makers, and professionals are encouraged to progress beyond the limited and damaging stormwater management practices that have been the standard for the past three decades. This guide walks the reader through problems and solutions in an extensively documented and readable way. Fact sheets are included, packed with information about conservation design methods, best management practices and natural resource protection techniques.

Adopt-A-Buffer Toolkit: Monitoring and Maintaining Restoration Projects
133 Pages

$15.00

This information-packed manual is for local watershed groups, restoration practitioners and volunteer monitors who implement stream restoration projects. Delaware Riverkeeper Network has field tested these protocols and is using this Toolkit for its own Adopt-A-Buffer Initiative, which monitors over eighty restoration projects in the Delaware Watershed. Included is a series of maintenance fact sheets that address common issues and challenges.