Backcountry Press

02/05/2025

01/04/2025

📣 News Highlights coming at ya from BCP HQ:

1. Our Spring Cleaning SALE is on through April 1st with 15% OFF all our books, classes, and other goodies! Use promo code SPRING25

2. Hiking Humboldt Vol. 2, the 2nd edition is here! Check out this favorite by trails legend and tireless advocate, Rees Hughes. It’s had a TOTAL overhaul and we love how it turned out! (Epic cover photo by Nate Berg — thanks Nate!)

3. We’re so pleased to announce our latest project in partnership with Matt Ritter : CALIFORNIA TREES: A Field Guide To The Native Species 🎉 This essential guide is printing now and will be in hand mid-April!

🌳🌲🌴🌵The presale includes the free ebook with your paperback. Find it at our 🔗 in comments.

01/11/2024

👻 Have you met the Bloody Ghost Amanita?

☠️ How about Sweet-scented Poison Pie?

🩸Or perhaps some Bleeding Parchment?

We’ve assembled our list of the Top 10 most gruesome, creepy, deadly, and just plain spooky mushrooms of the PNW.

🤓 Can you identify them?

Take a STAB at it with our Spooktacular Mushrooms of Cascadia Quiz posted in the comments ⬇️

You’re wickedly smart and brave—you’ve got this.

Plus all who play are entered to win a Mushrooms of Cascadia Book and Class with authNoah SiegelSiegel and ChChristian Schwarz@biodiversiphile … and there’s a sweet promo code just for having a go at it, regardless of score.

Have fun... if you dare!

(Giveaway winner will be randomly chosen from quizzes and emailed on Friday 11/8)

15/10/2024

🍄‍🟫 Just over here celebrating by crawling around in the ferns looking for who’s popping up!

👀 Take 20% OFF Mushrooms of Cascadia (!!!) and our Mushroom Classes (stellar infotainment) today only

✅ Follow our L I N K and use code MUSHROOMDAY at checkout

🔎 Hope you find a moment to see what fungi are fruiting in your neck of the woods today!

11/10/2024

in the — what a treat!

30/08/2024

After years in the works, “Mushrooms of Cascadia: a Comprehensive Guide to Fungi of the Pacific Northwest” is here!!

https://backcountrypress.com/book/mushrooms-of-cascadia/

22/08/2024

Thanks Kay’s Book Nook, for sharing our books with

Look what’s arrived!!! New inventory from BackCountry Press!
🍄 NEW Mushrooms of Cascadia
🌲 NEW Conifer Country 2nd Edition
And of course a restock on The Klamath Mountains. 🏔️

30/05/2024

We have winners in our G I V E A W A Y of the just released 2nd edition of Conifer Country!

Thank you to all who entered! We loved reading about your favorite conifers and could not help but see your comments as data just waiting to be visualized as a bar graph 🤓 Swipe to see the faves… with so many conifer species to choose from we wound up with a nice long tail.

Featured here is Conifer Country author .kauffmann ‘s favorite: the Klamath foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana subsp. balfouriana).

🌲 Friendly reminder: Order your copy of Conifer Country (2nd edition) by 6/1 and get the eBook for FREE! https://backcountrypress.com/book/conifer-country/

🎉 Congrats to the randomly chosen and their tagged pal . Hope to cross paths with you under a canopy of conifers!

28/05/2024

🌲 G I V E A W A Y 🌲 2nd edition of CONIFER COUNTRY for you and a pal, hot off the press!

ENTER BY 9pm PT ON 5/29

This innovative Natural History + Hiking Guide to 35 conifers of the Klamath Mountains region has been completely overhauled with:
• 70 more pages
• stunning color photos throughout (color plates are so 2012 😜)
• fully revised range maps, species accounts, and hikes

📗Get the eBook for FREE when you order the paperback by 6/1 at https://backcountrypress.com/book/conifer-country/

… or …

WIN A COPY FOR YOU AND A PAL!

🌲 HOW TO ENTER 🌲

• Follow

• Comment with your favorite conifer and TAG A FRIEND who also loves trees

• Each comment is an entry

• Share in your stories for an extra entry

• We’ll randomly choose an entry on 5/29 at 9pm PT. The entry and their tagged buddy will each win a copy!

22/04/2024

🌎 22% OFF Everything for Earth Day!

(Use code EARTHDAY at checkout)

Our hope at Backcountry Press is that the more people understand about our magnificent planet Earth, the more people will care about the places and lifeforms that surround them...

and that ultimately this leads to a stronger ethic of stewardship.

We attempt to deepen this human connection with the natural world through easy to understand science and direct experience in nature.

We hope our books and classes have enhanced your time on this beautiful planet!

We're celebrating Earth Day with 22% OFF EVERYTHING for April 22nd -- Including this upcoming class:

SEA VEGETABLES of the PACIFIC COAST: May 23 & 30, 6-7:30pm PT

#🌎

14/02/2024

Hot* Valentine Date Idea: Visit California’s Deserts for an armchair plant tour!

Tonight at 7:30pm PT .kauffmann, co-author of “California Desert Plants,” will take us on a journey to explore these vast and intimate desert landscapes through their diverse, colorful, and dynamic flora.

Join us in person or online for this free presentation!

IN PERSON:
7:30-8:30pm at the Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Rd, Arcata, CA

ONLINE: Register for the Zoom https://backcountrypress.com/calendar/

The desert areas of California include the northwestern portion of the Sonoran Desert, the largest part of the Mojave Desert, and the western margin of the Great Basin.

*These places can actually be quite cold in February 😆

P.S. “California Desert Plants” is 30% off all month at our website!
https://backcountrypress.com/book/california-desert-plants/