Trees

With its high plains, rolling hills, and river valleys, Kansas is home to a surprisingly diverse flora, and among these riches are the 166 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines identified, described, and pictured in this handy guide. Expanding and...

A photographic guide to 536 species of plant galls found west of the Rockies Beautiful and bizarre, plant galls are growths of various shapes, sizes, and colors produced in response to invading organisms. Describing 536 species of galls and their...

In this magnificently illustrated book, conservationist and celebrated outdoors photographer Tim Palmer launches us on a revealing journey among the hemlock and beech trees that have for millennia towered over America's eastern woodlands. The eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995140745Author Susette GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams)...

Forest Microbiology, Volume One: Tree Microbiome: Phyllosphere, Endosphere and Rhizosphere places an emphasis on the microbiology of leaves, needles, stems, roots, litter and soil. This comprehensive title is split into five sections, including the...

If trees had personalities, the northern white-cedar would be an introvert. It is unassuming, tending to be small in stature with narrow crowns. It is patient, growing slowly beneath the canopy of larger trees. It is fragile, with weak wood prone to...

The Trees of San Francisco introduces readers to the rich variety of trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique conditions. San Francisco's cool Mediterranean climate has made it home to interesting and unusual trees from all over the world -- trees as...

Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book...

Learn to identify New York trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395928950Author Gordon MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583554548Author James KavanaghPage Count 1Imprint Waterford Press LtdPublisher Waterford Press LtdWeight(grams) 43g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643261065Author Arbor Day FoundationFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Timber Press (OR)Publisher Timber Press (OR)Weight(grams) 203g

This outstanding book is a history of the forests of the world, a description of their present state, and an assessment of their prospects in the future. Written in a straightforward, readable style and from a position of wide knowledge and intense...

Learn to Identify Trees in Ohio! With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of trees that...

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of...

Dead Wood explores the life and afterlife of three trees growing along a river: a spruce in the Colorado Rockies, a western red cedar in Washington, and a balsam poplar in Canada. Each tree is enmeshed in a biological community during its lifetime and...

Covering 630 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Western North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and...

This is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, botanical plates, and extraordinarily detailed maps. Under the direction of the Central Park Conservancy, the...

Forest Ecology Forest Ecology An Evidence-Based Approach Forest ecology is the science that deals with everything in forests, including plants and animals (and their interactions), the features of the environment that affect plants and animals, and the...

What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America's native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree's natural home. But as familiar as the pecan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889832133Author Beth NorcrossFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Celebrate trees from around the world: Meet the world’s most impressive trees, from the tallest (Hyperion, a Californian coastal redwood, a whopping 116m) to the oldest (Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is a mind-bending 4,855 years old)...

A global exploration into the profound influence forests have had on our planet and civilisation.

'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes'Britain's best-loved adventurer... he looks like a man who will stare danger in the face and soak up a lot of pain without complaint.' The TimesLevison Wood has spent a...

The enchanting biography of an ancient tree.For over two centuries, as rulers have risen and fallen and wars have raged, one majestic oak tree has lived out an epic drama. From germination in 1780 to adapting to the changing climate of the modern age,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912550459Author May Theilgaard WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nature Study Guild PublishersPublisher Nature Study Guild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912550480Author May Theilgaard WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nature Study Guild PublishersPublisher Nature Study Guild Publishers

The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees—now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference. Along with a stunning visual depiction, each entry...

Challenges and Solutions of Climate Impact on Agriculture explores the issues arising from the changing climate for agricultural plants, with a specifically soil-focused approach. Addressing the impacts on a range of important global food crops, it looks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008622411Author Colin SalterFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PavilionPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

A counterintuitive proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local wood in home building American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthless...

'A wonderfully honest, evocative, inspiring book about a life transformed and enriched by nature and by art.' SARAH WATERS'The clarity of Richard Shimell's words perfectly matches that of his pictures, making this a magnificent book in which to lose...

For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the 17th century, they had begun to plant nurseries. Within the space of a few years thousands of new plantations...