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Here is my assembled list of outdoors and nature themed decks. Additions welcome. In the National Parks and Info Decks categories, unless printer is explicitly noted you can usually assume card stock quality of souvenir or worse. In other categories a preferred printer is probably used unless otherwise noted.

National Parks

National Parks (Piatnik)
National Parks (USPCC, 59 Parks)
National Parks (Parks Project, out of print? Seen on REI.com)
National Parks Wildlife (Parks Project)
National Parks Minimalist (Parks Project)
National Parks (Anderson Design Group)
National Park Playing Cards (americasnationalparks.org souvenir deck)
National Park Playing Cards (USPCC, Lan Hoang, uncommongoods.com)
National Parks Great Smoky Mountains (USPCC)

Info Decks*

Freedom of the Hills (The Mountaineers, laminated)
Don't "X" Out There Series (The Mountaineers, multiple decks covering real life survival tips, very poor quality cards)
Edible Wild Foods (USGS)
Trees of the Natural World (USGS)

*decks in this category contain text or diagrams intended to serve as a reference or learning aid, usually for field use

Plants, Wildlife

Antler
Sea Creatures
Faunae
Insecta
Strigiformes
Animal Kingdom (WWF)
Bicycle Open Season
Flora
Woodlands
Ocean Life Playing Cards (Heritage Playing Cards)
Wild Flowers (Heritage Playing Cards)
Wildflowers of the Midwest (Nature's Wild)
Wild Flowers of America (Cartamundi, Mark Hamilton)

General Mountains, Parks, and Nature

Peak Day/Night
Find Your Park
Camp Cards White/Ranger
Ascension Summit
Pocono Modern
Bicycle Burton
Harmony Collection
Bicycle Four Seasons series
Chronicle Books Great Outdoors
Adrift

Tangentially Related

Bicycle Natural Disasters series
Permaculture
Bicycle Eco Edition
Sea Shepherd Playing Cards

Vintage

To be added at a future date, needs much more research, help wanted

Souvenir

Do I really dare list these?

Yeah, I was going to say there is a near infinite number of parks and such souvenir decks (not to mention wildflower). That would be a very deep rabbit hole indeed.

Does "Culturae Animalis" (printed by EPCC) qualify as an addition to the animal section or is it too "surrealistic"?

Bradius wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 2:10 pm Yeah, I was going to say there is a near infinite number of parks and such souvenir decks (not to mention wildflower). That would be a very deep rabbit hole indeed.

For sure, I am not prioritizing individual park souvenir decks right now. It's hard to even estimate how many would exist; some state and national parks don't have gift shops to speak of or don't include cards among their offerings, but some city parks like Garden of the Gods do have a souvenir deck. There are also numerous souvenir decks simply titled "Colorado" which prominently feature nature photography, so I'm sure there are countless for other states too. Nevermind that gift shops seemingly switch out souvenir decks periodically, so vintage souvenir decks...yikes.

On the other hand, I am for sure interested in any gift shop/souvenir decks printed by one of the preferred printing companies, designed by a notable artist or featuring significant original illustrations, from a particularly fascinating location, or otherwise interesting beyond merely being a souvenir.

CPPCC wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 2:47 pm Does "Culturae Animalis" (printed by EPCC) qualify as an addition to the animal section or is it too "surrealistic"?

For now I'm not including fantasy animal decks. It's sometimes hard to make the distinction, to be fair; Animal Kingdom has animals as anthropomorphic/standard courts, but is endorsed by the WWF and is on my list. I'd personally say Culturae Animalis, while a cool deck, probably isn't quite "nature." There are a few decks that actually made me ponder which way it should go, though (like Bicycle Gorillas).

There also are The Planets decks (and Pluto mini deck) and The Constellations decks. You may be wanting to keep it planet side though.

There is also the Air, Water, Fire and Earth deck.

Now that I think about it, I don't think Jackson has done what would qualify as a Nature deck...wow.

I have in my mind now a nature design from a china pattern I have - Villeroy and boch - naif pattern (one pattern example below)

I love me some space decks but that's probably a whole 'nother list. Maybe sky map/constellation info decks would make this list. Maybe.

I've also changed wording from "animals" to "wildlife" since that's much more plain about what I'm including. No domestic animals either, cat and dog decks would be yet another list of its own, with subcategories too!

Admittedly I need to expand a bit, more ocean, fish, birds, etc. Will add this later, obviously a work in progress at this point.

Love the plate! Very pastoral.

There's also all Heritage Playing Cards
I have the Gems and Minerals


This is my deck:

AoP Jungle Deck and Orbit Brown Forest Deck are ones I'd include in my outdoors-y/nature themed list