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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Redman, Donnell E. "An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Oregon Ridge Park, Baltimore County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 43 (January/June 1999): 1-31.

Redman, Donnell E. "Bamboos of Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 15-22.

Redman, Donnell E. "The Livebearing Fish, Gambusia holbrooki, in Loch Raven Watershed Baltimore County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 28-30.

Reveal, James L. "'Baltimora:' The Curious Tale of How a Flowering Plant from Mexico was Named for the Maryland City of Baltimore." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 1-6.

Schmidt, Martin F. Maryland's Geology. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1993.

Schubel, Jerry R. The Living Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Slifer, Dennis, and Richard Franz. Caves of Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1971.

Staines, C. L. "Survey for Calosoma Caterpillar Hunters (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Maryland 1992-1993." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 31-36.

Steury, Brent W. Floristics Survey for Vascular Plants of Cove Point, Calvert County, Maryland. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1996.

Steury, Brent W. "Survey for Endangered, Threatened and Rare Vascular Plants in Cove Point Marsh, Calvert County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 41 (July/December 1997): 89-96.

Stevenson, C. H. "The Oyster Industry in Maryland." Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (1892): 203-297.
Notes: Stevenson foresaw far in advance a coming disaster for the oyster industry. Oh, had we only heeded his wise counsel!

Stevenson, J. Court, and Karen Sundeberg. Historical Shoreline Configurations at Cove Point >From Original Patents and Later Shoreline Surveys. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1997.
Notes: Stevenson is largely concerned with historical documents, but he has embedded wonderful insights into forest, river and land-use practices. He publishes an account of a hike down the Chesapeake shore which graphically demonstrates how much the region has changed.

Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.

Taylor, John. Birds of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Uhler, P. R., and Otto Lugger. List of Fishes of Maryland. Annapolis, MD: John Wiley, 1876.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species. Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Program, 1998.

Valentino, David Wayne. Tectonics of the Lower Susquehanna River Region, Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland: Late Proterozoic Rifting to Late Paleozoic Dextral Transpression. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993.

Vogt, Peter R. "Maryland's First Naturalist." Bugeye Times 17 (Winter 1992/1993): 6-7.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.

Vokes, Harold E. Geography and Geology of Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1957.
Notes: This little volume, long out of print, is packed with history and economic background, which though dated, gives a broad overview of the State's environment.

Vokes, Harold E. Miocene Fossils of Maryland. 1957; reprint, Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1968.

Walker, P. N. Water in Maryland: A Review of the State's Liquid Assets. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1970.
Notes: This is a summary work for the whole state. There appear to be obscure but existing water resources works for most of the counties as well.

Ward, Lauck W., and David S. Powars. Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chesapeake Bay Region, Virginia and Maryland. Washington, DC: 28th International Geological Congress, American Geophysical Union, 1989.
Notes: A thorough discussion of how layers of this region's fossils lie in our exposed cliffs. Not a popularly written text, but this is how to find and identify many of the region's marvelous fossils.

Webster, W. D., F. P. James, and Walter C. Biggs. Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

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