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- Kuhlken, Robert. Bigfoot or Sasquatch is alleged to be an Ape -like creature inhabiting remote forests mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada 2002. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 275, Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose, pp. 261-270. Detroit: Gale.
- Slovic, Scott. 2000. Pyle, Walking the High Ridge: Life as a Field Trip, pp. 119-146. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions.
Bibliography
- Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place. " 2007. Houghton Mifflin.
- The Butterflies of Cascadia: A Field Guide to All the Species of Washington, Oregon, and Surrounding Territories. 2002. Seattle Audubon Society.
- Nabokov’s Butterflies. Edited and annotated by Pyle and Brian Boyd, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov. 2000. Beacon Press.
- Walking the High Ridge: Life As Field Trip. 2000. Milkweed Editions.
- Chasing Monarchs: A Migration with the Butterflies of Passage. 1999. Houghton Mifflin.
- The Thunder Tree: Lessons from An Urban Wildland. 1998. Lyons Press.
- Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide. 1995. Houghton Mifflin.
- Insects: A Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book. 1993. Houghton Mifflin.
- Handbook for Butterfly Watchers. 1992. Houghton Mifflin.
- Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart. 1987. Houghton Mifflin.
- Butterflies: A Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book. (With Sarah Anne Hughes and Roger Tory Peterson). 1983. Houghton Mifflin.
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies. 1981. Knopf.
Other contributions
- Wild in the City (2000). Oregon Historical Society. (Introduction, "No vacancy," and chapter, "Bright Butterflies, Big City. ")
- Nature's Fading Chorus: Classic and Contemporary Writings on Amphibians (2000). Island Press. (Prologue, "Reflections in a Golden Eye," and chapter, "Waterproof Wildlife. ")
- Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft (1996). Beacon Press. (essay "Secrets of the Talking Leaf")
- Words From the Land, Volume II (1995). University of Nevada Press. (essay "A Grand Surprise")
- The Norton Book of Nature Writing (1990). Ed. J. Elder, R. Finch. Norton. (essay "And the Coyotes Will Lift A Leg")
- Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden (1990; new edition, 1998). Xerces Society/Sierra Club Books. (Afterword and chapter "Butterfly Watching Tips")
- The Art of the Butterfly (1990). Chronicle/Marquand. (Afterword)
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