The Gosse Nature Guides

The Gosse Nature Guides are a series of natural history guidebooks prepared by experts on the plants and animals of Alabama and designed for the outdoor enthusiast and ecology layperson. Because Alabama is one of the nation’s most biodiverse states, its residents and visitors require accurate, accessible field guides to interpret the wealth of life that thrives within the state’s borders. Read More. . .

Acquisitions Editor: Claire Lewis Evans (cevans [at] uapress.ua.edu)

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Frogs and Toads of Alabama

by Craig Guyer and Mark A. Bailey

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817360665

Pub Date: March 2023

Format: Paperback

A comprehensive taxonomy of the anuran fauna in Alabama

Trees of Alabama

by Lisa J. Samuelson

Photographer Michael E. Hogan

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817359416

Pub Date: February 2020

Format: Paperback

An easy-to-use guide to the most common trees in the state

Lizards and Snakes of Alabama

by Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey and Robert H. Mount

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817359164

Pub Date: February 2019

Format: Paperback

An up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama

Butterflies of Alabama

Glimpses into Their Lives

by Paulette Haywood Ogard and Sara Cunningham Bright

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817355951

Pub Date: March 2017

Format: Paperback

Full-color, richly illustrated guide to the 84 known species of "true" butterflies (Papilionoidea) found within the state’s borders

Turtles of Alabama

by Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey and Robert H. Mount

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817358068

Pub Date: October 2015

Format: Paperback

Turtles of Alabama pulls together new discoveries, research, and taxonomic changes that have occurred in herpetology within the state of Alabama since the 1975 publication of the now-classic volume Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama by Robert H. Mount.

Mammals of Alabama

by Troy L. Best and Julian L. Dusi

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817357498

Pub Date: April 2014

Format: Paperback

Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna

Nature Journal

by L. J. Davenport

Foreword by John C. Hall

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817355692

Pub Date: August 2010

Format: Paperback

An innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs derived from Davenport’s popular column of the same title in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors. The book is designed to be much more than a mere collection of entertaining essays; it is also an educational tool—a means of instructing and encouraging readers in the art of keeping a nature journal for themselves.