Identify trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf. This field-tested guide features color photos showing bark; branching patterns; fruits, flowers, or nuts; and overall appearance; as well as leaf color and shape--all chosen specifically to illustrate trees in spring, summer, winter, and fall. Accompanying text describes common locations and identifying characteristics. Created for in-the-field or at-home use, this guide includes an easy-to-use key that will help you put a name to any tree by flipping only a few pages. Covers every common tree in eastern North America.
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Michael D. Williams worked as an area forester with the Tennessee Division of Forestry. He was widely known for his uncanny ability to explain complicated forestry concepts in terms that were fresh, simple, and practical enough for even novices to understand.
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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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good packaging, mediocre content,
This review is from: Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Paperback)
I was really excited to get this book. As I read it my opinion gradually declined. While it is a useful book, I have seen much better tree books, such as Michigan Trees (for those who live in the Great Lakes or Northeast). The book only cover the larger trees, for the most part. Many of the photos are of remarkably poor quality, and they tend not to show many good identifying characteristics. The writing seems disorganized, and the text does not go into detail about reliable identifying characteristics. The ranges given are extremely general.
Most of all, I was disappointed to find the book containing errors that seem inexcusable in a guide of this type. For example, the section on slippery elm says "Slicing through the bark at a gradual angle will usually expose thin layers of white inner bark divided by the thicker reddish brown bark, as is usually found in the elms." This is totally wrong: the ABSENCE of white layers in the bark is the feature used to tell slippery elm from the other elms. The photo he shows are of American elm bark, as can be clearly seen by the light creamy layers in the bark. How can this guide help people identify trees if the author can't even identify them?
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the Best ID Books on Trees,
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I am a forester in TN and have several tree ID books. This is one of the better Tree ID books dealing with SE US trees. And it is a bargin.
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Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide To Eastern North America
I bought this book because my 7th grader was required to identify 25 tree leaves and create a leaf identification book for his Science project. He was given the list of trees we were to look for, then gather the sample leaves and label. "Identifying Trees" provided a wide variety of basic instruction on the process of identifying trees and their leaves, the most likey location of the trees, and colorful pictures to make identifcation easy. I loved the book and am happy to have it as an addition to my personal library.
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The first step in the identification process is asking yourself what kind of leaves you see. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hark plates, brown inner hark, light gray hark, hark pattern, surface hark, trunk hark, hark surface, reddish brown hark, black hark, lopsided base, rounded sinuses, young hark, smooth hark, finely toothed edges, breast height, white hark, wildlife eat, bark plates, deep sinuses, shallow fissures, dark green upper surface, resin pockets, wildlife feed, oval crown, corky ridges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, New England, Mississippi River, Appalachian Mountains, New York, Green Ash, Pin Oak, Great Lakes, Red Maple, Eastern White Pine, Pignut Hickory, Pitch Pine, Red Ash, Red Hickory, Balsam Fir, Black Cherry, Black Oak, Black Walnut, Blue Ash, Quaking Aspen, Red Mulberry, Sugar Maple, Swamp Chestnut Oak, Yellow Birch, Black Locust New!
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The first step in the identification process is asking yourself what kind of leaves you see. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hark plates, brown inner hark, light gray hark, hark pattern, surface hark, trunk hark, hark surface, reddish brown hark, black hark, lopsided base, rounded sinuses, young hark, smooth hark, finely toothed edges, breast height, white hark, wildlife eat, bark plates, deep sinuses, shallow fissures, dark green upper surface, resin pockets, wildlife feed, oval crown, corky ridges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, New England, Mississippi River, Appalachian Mountains, New York, Green Ash, Pin Oak, Great Lakes, Red Maple, Eastern White Pine, Pignut Hickory, Pitch Pine, Red Ash, Red Hickory, Balsam Fir, Black Cherry, Black Oak, Black Walnut, Blue Ash, Quaking Aspen, Red Mulberry, Sugar Maple, Swamp Chestnut Oak, Yellow Birch, Black Locust New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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