Pines and Plains Libraries

Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But his isn't unusual--nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave--he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying...

After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him.

"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--

The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) Spatial Analysis Project (SAP) was developed to evaluate the impact over the landscape that the FSP has had over the last decade and identify areas of stewardship suitability to allow for strategic delivery of the FSP. The SAP has two main components: the historic spatial database of stewardship plan tracts, and the 12-layer suitability analysis. Both components are used together in a GIS analysis to categorize...

Describes the variety of plant and animal life supported by the forest habitat, explaining how these habitats are threatened and how they can be preserved for the future.

On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads,...

Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.