We will have the opportunity to visit one of the best natural history bookstores on our visit (run by the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association at the interagency visitor center in Lone Pine) but you may want browse on-line resources or purchase books in advance.

On-line Resources (all links open in a new page):

• Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California (WMRS Symposium Vol. 1)
  This is the most comprehensive guide to the White Mountains that exists.  The book is out of print, but you can follow the above link to read an on-line version of this great work.  The book is also available used on Amazon (NOT ALL INCLUDE THE GEOLOGY MAP).  Follow this link to buy the book on Amazon.com

• Plant Biology of Eastern California (WMRS Symposium Vol. 2)

• Natural History of Eastern California and High -Altitude Research (WMRS Symposium Vol. 3

• The History of Water: Eastern Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, White-Inyo Mountains (WMRS Symposium Vol. 4)

• Climate, Ecosystems and Resources in Eastern California - Abstracts only (WMRS Symposium Vol. 5)

• Geological Map of the White-Inyo Range

• University of California White Mountains Research Center (WMRC)

• Research Projects at the WMRC

• Crooked Creek Station Plant List

• Crooked Creek Station Vertebrate Animals

• Crooked Creek Station Geology

• Crooked Creek Station Archeology

• Digital Desert Bristlecone Pine Forest Page

• Inyo National Forest

• California Native Plant Society Bristlecone Chapter

• Friends of the Inyo

• Eastern Sierra Audubon Society

Bibliography:

The links below open to Amazon.com in a new window, but you can also purchase most of these titles on-line from the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. 

• Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley, Robert P. Sharp

• Geology of the Great Basin.  Bill Fiero

• The Broken Land.  Adventures in Great Basin Geology.  Frank L. DeCourten

• Geologic Trips Sierra Nevada

• Assembling California, John McPhee

• The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Anne Johnson

• Deepest Valley.  Guide to Owens Valley, second edition, edited by Jeff Putman & Genny Smith

• NOVA Online | Methuselah Tree

• The Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees, Ronald M. Lanner

• A Garden of Bristlecones.  Tales of change in the Great Basin

• Edmund Schulman and the "Living Ruins" Bristlecone Pines, Tree Rings and Radiocarbon Dating, Donald J. McGraw

• Sierra East, Edge of the Great Basin, Genny Smith Editor

• Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary, Ronald J. Taylor

• GreatBasin Wildflowers, a guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of NV., UT, and OR.

• The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California, Bruce Baldwin