NW Sea Kayaking
Sea Kayaking; A Manual for Long-Distance Touring by John Dowd, University of Washington Press
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chappelle, Sky Horse Publishing
Baidarka: The Kayak by George Dyson, Alaska Northwest Publishing
Qajaq: Kayaks of Siberia and Alaska by David Zimmerly, Alaska State Museum
The Canoe: A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic by Kenneth Roberts and Philip Shackleton
David W. Zimmerly http://www.arctickayaks.com/
The Dash Point Pirate http://dashpointpirate.typepad.com
The Canadian Canoe Museum http://www.canoemuseum.ca/
Coast and Kayak Magazine http://www.coastandkayak.com/
NW Wilderness Skills
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, The Mountaineers
Medicine for Mountaineering by James Wilkerson M.D., Mountaineers Books
Song of the Paddle: An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Camping by Bill Mason, Firefly Books
How to Catch Salmon and How to Catch Bottomrfish by Charles White, Heritage House
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance by Stephen Herrero, Lyons Press
The Mountaineers http://www.mountaineers.org/
Wilderness Medicine Society http://www.wms.org/
Alaska Department of Fish and Game http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/
Kayak Fishing http://www.kayakfishing.com/
Tom Brown Jr. http://www.trackerschool.com/
NW Maps and Navigation
Be Expert with Map and Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Outdoor Navigation with GPS by Stephen W. Hinch, Wilderness Press
The MILEPOST: Legendary Northwest trip planner by Globe Pequot Press
Alaska Atlas and Gazetteer by DeLORME
The Backroad Mapbook Series: Canada's guide to the outdoors by Backroad Mapbooks
Brunton Navigation http://store.bruntonoutdoor.com/
Garmin GPS http://www.garmin.com/
Mac GPS Pro http://www.macgpspro.com/
All Topo US Digital Topographic Maps http://www.igage.com/
Etopo Canadian Digital Topographic Maps http://etopo.ca/
NW Travel and Destinations
Alaska's Parklands: The Complete Guide by Nancy Simmerman, Mountaineers Books
Alaska Geographic Books various locations by various authors, Alaska Geographic
Exploring the Yukon River by Archie Satterfield, iUniverse
Canadian Rockies Trail Guide by Brian Patton and Bart Robinson, Summerthought Publishing
Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis by John Baldwin, Harbour Publishing
US National Parks http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
Parks Canada http://www.pc.gc.ca/
BC Parks http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/
Alaska Marine Highway http://www.dot.state.ak.us/amhs/
BC Ferries http://www.bcferries.com/
NW Native and First Nation peoples
Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska by William Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Institution Press
Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory by Kenneth M. Ames, Thames & Hudson
The Tlingit Indians by George T. Emmons and Frederica de Laguna, University of Washington Press
Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart, University of Washington Press
Hunters of the Northern Forest by Richard K. Nelson, University of Chicago Press
British Columbia Assembly of First Nations http://www.bcafn.ca/
Guardian Watchmen http://coastalguardianwatchmen.ca/
Council of Yukon First Nations http://www.cyfn.ca/Alaska Federation of Natives http://www.nativefederation.org/
Sealaska Heritage Institute http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/
NW History of Exploration
Travels in Alaska by John Muir, Mariner Books
A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean by Captain George Vancouver RN, Hakluyt Society
Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 by David Thompson, The Champlain Society
My life with the Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Macmillan Company
Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest by Derek Hayes, Sasquatch Books
State of Alaska digital archives http://vilda.alaska.edu/
The Royal BC Museum http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
The Harriman Alaska Expedition http://content.lib.washington.edu/harrimanweb/index.html
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Northwest Journal http://www.northwestjournal.ca/
NW Naturalist
The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Pojar and MacKinnon, Lone Pine Publishing
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest and Aspen Parklands by Johnson, Kershaw, MacKinnon and Pojar, Lone Pine Publishing
Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest by Andy Lamb and Phil Edgell, Harbour Publishing
Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andrew Lamb, Bernard P. Hanby, Harbour Publishing
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://www.birds.cornell.edu/
National Audubon Society http://www.audubon.org/
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists http://www.bcnature.ca/
The PLANTS Database http://plants.usda.gov/
E-Fauna BC http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/index.shtml
NW Literature
The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower, Holt, Rinehart
Hidden Coast: Coastal Adventures from Alaska to Mexico by Joel W. Rogers, Alaska Northwest Books
The Island Within by Richard Nelson, Vintage Books
A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage along the Yukon River by Dan O'Neill, Basic Books
The Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service, G.P. Putnam’s Sons
University of Washington Press http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/
University of Alaska Press http://www.alaska.edu/uapress/
University of British Columbia Press http://www.ubcpress.ca/
Harbour Publishing http://www.harbourpublishing.com/
Smithsonian Books http://www.smithsonianbooks.com/
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