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A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.
Author : Charles Fergus
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,71 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 : Dan Ogrydziak
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2013-06-23
Category : Trees
ISBN : 9781937146306
The main body of Trees of New England consists of 19 ink drawings of trees common to the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, southern Vermont and southern New Hampshire. My motivation came from the lack of leaf images with sufficient quality to do key driven tree identification. The use of leaf keys is a means to train the eye for details relevant to distinguishing species well beyond the 19 found in this book. In general, detail found in commercial field guides is limited, and the higher-quality older etchings are difficult to find and ornate in style. It might seem that this need could be fully realized through the Internet, but for learning tree identification by key, the Internet has its own limitation. Each of the 19 drawings is an attempt to produce a realistic image with a focus on identifiable features. All the images were produced from multiple samples with an eye to capturing an archetypal representation of the species. The aesthetic was to create a precise, unembellished series of drawings in which the beauty of nature’s designs would be manifest.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1643260944
Step Out of Your Car and Right into Nature! New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England. Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include turn-by-turn directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and fungi you are likely to encounter along the way. New England’s Roadside Ecology is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Author : George Plumer Burns
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Marilyn J. Dwelley
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
With more than 300 entries, this is an indispensable guide for field use or home reference. Listings include text descriptions; information on range, habitat, and growth habits; and Latin and common names.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,47 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 : 30,20 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 : Michael Wojtech
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781684580316
What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detailed information and illustrations covering each phase of a tree's lifecycle, this indispensable guidebook explains how to identify trees by their bark alone--no more need to wait for leaf season. Chapters on the structure and ecology of tree bark, descriptions of bark appearance, an easy-to-use identification key, and supplemental information on non-bark characteristics--all enhanced by more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and maps--will show you how to distinguish the textures, shapes, and colors of bark to recognize various tree species, and also understand why these traits evolved. Whether you're a professional naturalist or a parent leading a family hike, this new edition of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast is your essential guide to the region's 67 native and naturalized tree species.
Author : Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780300097399
'Elm Street' has satisfied America's quest for a pastoral urbanism since the time of Jefferson.
Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,76 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.