Currently reading back and forth between
Coyote America by Dan Flores and
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, & Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul. I'd give the thumbs up to both if you're into natural history.
Last week I flew through
A Sand County Almanac as recommended on
this thread. Fantastic book and can't believe I didn't read it sooner.
Hunting how-to's just don't move my needle anymore, but in the past one that stuck with me that I still page through from time to time are the is one put out by Deer and Deer Hunting that has cliff notes of a bunch of scientific studies among other articles. Google machine isn't turning that one up, I'll have to find it later.
I also have
Mapping Trophy Bucks and a couple other hunting books by Greg Miller and the Wenzels that were pretty good reads but I don't remember anything especially memorable about either. I'm not by any means saying I know everything deer, but anymore I see most hunting media as self-aggrandizing mumbo jumbo.
Mapping Trophy Bucks was revolutionary, but with OnX and Youtuber instructionals I would argue a lot of those fundamentals are to the point of being counterproductive for the public land hunter anymore.
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
By Mark Kenyon
Whatcha think of it? Keeps popping up in my Kindle recommendations.