Everything we recommend, in one place — websites, local professionals, and the book that convinced a lot of us.
Local professionals who work with native plants:
Nature's Best Hope by Professor Doug Tallamy
If you read one book about why any of this matters, read this one. Tallamy's argument is that conservation can't only happen in parks and preserves — it has to happen in yards, on the half-acre scale, everywhere at once. That idea is more or less why this group exists.