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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region more books like this

by Elbert L Little, Jr., Sonja Bullaty (Photographer), Angelo Lomeo (Photographer)

All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat.

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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed more books like this

by John Vaillant

The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree.

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A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest

A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest more books like this

by Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), Mariner Books, George A Petrides

Features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and South.

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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and in Southeastern and South-Central Canada

A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and in Southeastern and South-Central Canada more books like this

by George A Petrides

All the wild trees, shrubs, and woody vines in the area north to Newfoundland, south to North Carolina and Tennessee, and west to the Dakotas and Kansas are described in detail. Accounts of 646 species include shape and arrangement of leaves, height, color, bark texture, flowering season, and fruit. Clear, accurate drawings illustrate leaves, ...

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Oak: The Frame of Civilization

Oak: The Frame of Civilization more books like this

by William Bryant Logan

The oak tree is found throughout the temperate zones of the world; knowing how to use it has made an astonishing difference to human history. Acorn-eating has sustained humans and animals; oak has been central to religious rites, heating, homemaking and travel by land and sea; the ink from oak galls advanced the written word; oak casks have made ...

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Trees of North America

Trees of North America more books like this

by Frank C Brockman, C Frank Brockman, Herbert Spencer Zim, Ph.D., SC.D. (Editor)

A reference guide to a large variety of trees commonly found in North America.

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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--W: Western Region

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--W: Western Region more books like this

by Elbert L Little, Jr., National Audubon Society, Angelo Lomeo (Photographer)

These are fully illustrated with color photographs, comprehensive field guides including extensive descriptions covering appearance, habitat, range and much more!

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Young Men & Fire

Young Men & Fire more books like this

by Norman MacLean

Norman MacLean scrupulously examines the tragic events of August 5, 1949, when lightning struck and started a forest fire in the Rocky Mountains. Thirteen young airborne firefighters were killed trying to extinguish it, when a 200-foot high firestorm erupted into a vast wall of death. MacLean, who had been both a forester and a firefighter in his ...

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Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring more books like this

by Richard Preston, Jr.

From the #1 bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of Rthe canopy, S and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.

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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England more books like this

by Tom Wessels, Brian D Cohen, Ann H Zwinger (Foreword by)

Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be travelled, as this book shows the reader. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. Wessels teaches the reader to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. ...

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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees more books like this

by Roger Deakin

In the late British nature writer's glorious meditation on what he has called the fifth element, or wood--as it exists in nature, in the soul, in culture, and in life--the reader is swept along on a quest through the woods in search of what lies behind humankind's profound and enduring connection with trees.

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American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree more books like this

by Susan Freinkel

The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the ...

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Rainforest more books like this

by Thomas Marent

Join photographer Marent as he captures images of rainforest life and tells the story of his journey through spectacular, full-color photos.

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A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America more books like this

by John C Kricher (Text by), Gordon Morrison (Illustrator)

This guide includes 53 full-color plates, 100 color photographs, and more than 60 line drawings. Topics include forest field marks, the varying kinds of forest communities and indicator plants and animals for each type, and the different seasons in the forest.

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One River more books like this

by Wade Davis

Ethnobotanist Wade Davis has spent many years in the rainforest, helping in their preservation. This is the story of his own explorations in the 1970s and the earlier ones of his mentor, Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes. Their contrasting experiences, a generation apart, vividly portray the damage that has been done to the rainforest ...

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Tree Identification more books like this

by George Symonds

A new method for the practical identification and recognition of trees -- and an important supplement to existing botanical methods. The book is in two parts: Pictorial Keys and Master Pages. The Keys are designed for easy visual comparison of details which "look alike," narrowing the identification of a tree to one of a small group -- the family ...

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Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Revised and Updated more books like this

by Frank C Brockman, C Frank Brockman, Herbert Spencer Zim, Ph.D., SC.D. (Editor)

A reference guide to a large variety of trees commonly found in North America.

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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter more books like this

by Mr. Colin Tudge

One of Britain's most highly regarded science writers looks at trees in exquisite, comprehensive detail: what they are, how they live, how they came into being, and the communities known as forests where they live.

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Tell Me, Tree: All about Trees for Kids more books like this

by Gail Gibbons

A bright and colorful introduction to trees, leaves, and their inner workingsin nature. Illustrations.

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If I Ran the Rain Forest: All about Tropical Rain Forests more books like this

by Bonnie Worth, Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator)

The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an "umbrella-vator" ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way. Full color.

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National Geographic Field Guide to Trees of North America more books like this

by Keith Rushforth, Charles Hollis

Ideal for backpacks and back pockets alike, this indispensable reference makes it easy to identify any tree commonly encountered between the Canadian Arctic and Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific--more than 350 species in all. It's a natural for birders, hikers, and other outdoorsy types, but even confirmed urbanites will find plenty of ...

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Redwoods: The World's Largest Trees more books like this

by Jeremy Joan Hewes

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Winter Tree Finder, Eastern more books like this

by May T Watts, Tom Watts

These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.

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Forest Mensuration more books like this

by Bertram Husch

This new edition presents a new, updated approach to forest measurement that takes into account all of a forest?s resources, describes the use of mensuration as a monitoring tool, presents current forest management principles, and much more.

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Western Forests more books like this

by Stephen Whitney, Charles Elliott (Editor)

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