Section 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 1: The Trailhead
Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing

Section 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing
Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World
Chapter 4: Living Maps
Chapter 5: The Writer in Place
Chapter 6: People and Place
Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below
Chapter 8: The Art of Activism
Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves
Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem
Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting
Chapter 12: A Trail Guide

Section 3: Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology
Creative Nonfiction

Geologies: An Investigation
Chelsea Biondolillo

Pack Rat
John Daniel

Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning
Camille T. Dungy

Nature Writing by Numbers
David Gessner

Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America
Jennifer Lunden

Burning the Shelter
Louis Owens

Spring Ends in Bangor, PA
Sean Prentiss

Hell Yeah We Want Windmills
Erik Reece

The Other Side of Fire
Leslie Ryan

Trapline: An Ojibwe Man's Search for Identity on the Canadian Taiga
David Treuer

Fiction

Family Reunion
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Border
Alyson Hagy

Cartography
Bonnie Nadzam

Mule Killers
Lydia Peelle

The Caves of Oregon
Benjamin Percy

Like Bread the Light
Joe Wilkins

Poetry

Creation Myth
Elizabeth Bradfield

I Was Popular in Certain Circles
Gabrielle Calvocoressi

What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn't Global Warming
Todd Davis

Weekly Apocalyptic, or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule
Chris Dombrowski

Resurrection of the Errand Girl
Nikky Finney

Water Water Water Wind Water
Juan Felipe Herrera

Migration
Major Jackson

Remembering Minidoka
W. Todd Kaneko

River Keeper
Laurie Kutchins

Emerging View
Anne Haven McDonnell

Coos Bay
Michael McGriff

Explaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the Extinction
Juan Morales

Lewis and Clark Disagree
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Natural World
G.E. Patterson

Stripping
Sean Prentiss

As a Species Flies from Extinction, Consider the River
Derek Sheffield

Migration of Balling Twine
Julia Shipley

The Feed
M.L. Smoker

Theories of Time and Space
Natasha Trethewey

Seven Devils
Joe Wilkins

Tire Hut: Seaview, Washington
Maya Jewell Zeller