- Atwood, Kay. Chaining Oregon. McDonald and Woodward Publishing, 2008.
- Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Big History. The New Press, 2007.
- Goble, Dale, and Paul W. Hirt. Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History. Washington State University Press, 1999.
- Jackson, Philip L., and A. Jon Kimerling. Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press, 9th edition, 2003.
- Petersen, Keith C. River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake. Oregon State University Press, 1995.
- Wallace, David Rains. The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution. University of California Press, 2003.
- Worster, Donald. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 1994.
Additional readings, as assigned, will generally be available from the program web site, in the weekly schedule, for the week assigned.