Author : Rowland Evans Robinson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN :
The following book is a collection of writings about New England's natural surroundings as observed by the author, Rowland Evans Robinson. He was an American farmer, artist, and author. He is best known as the author of several novels and short stories that captured details about life in rural Vermont, including attitudes towards Native Americans, African Americans, and foreigners, as well as the pre-Civil War regional differences of the northern and southern states.
Author : Kenn Kaufman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 061845697X
Presents an illustrated field guide to the plants, wildlife, night sky, and natural environments of New England.
Author : Charles Fergus
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Trees
ISBN : 9780762737956
A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780881504200
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1581578571
Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Author : Ted Elliman
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1604697407
Ideal for hikers, foragers, and plant lovers, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live. Wildflowers of New England is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of the region. Organized by flower color and shape, and including a range map for each flower described, the guide is as user-friendly as it is informative. This must-have book is perfect for hikers, naturalists, and native plant enthusiasts. Covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont Describes and illustrates more than 1,000 commonly encountered species Includes perennials and annuals, both native and naturalized non-native 1,100 beautiful color photographs User-friendly organization by flower color and shape
Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0802719260
The only field guide to stone walls in the Northeast. Exploring Stone Walls is like being in Thorson's geology classroom, as he presents the many clues that allow you to determine any wall's history, age, and purpose. Thorson highlights forty-five places to see interesting and noteworthy walls, many of which are in public parks and preserves, from Acadia National Park in Maine to the South Fork of Long Island. Visit the tallest stone wall (Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island), the most famous (Robert Frost's mending wall in Derry, New Hampshire), and many more. This field guide will broaden your horizons and deepen your appreciation of New England's rural history.
Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0802719201
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
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Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN :
Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1493029266
Native plants are drought tolerant, disease resistant, wildlife friendly, and environmentally sound. Experts increasingly encourage gardeners to use natives exclusively. This handy and practical guide focuses on 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in New England gardens. The presentation is aimed at gardeners, who want concise, practical information. It will also include material on the importance and desirability of using native plants. The heart of this book is 100 two-page spreads, one for each species. The spreads will include facts about the plant of use to a gardener (not a botanist)—where it grows best, when it blooms, the soil conditions in which it thrives, its appeal to wildlife, sunlight requirements, how high it grows, how to propagate it, and how to avoid any problems particular to the species. Each spread will also feature two color photos.
