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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a handy backpack reference,
By Dr. Jim (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer (Paperback)
This little book of pretty pictures of lichens is slightly larger than a Reader's Digest but not quite as thick, so it will fit into your backback but not into your pocket. It tells you what you want to know without getting too botanical and will add greatly to what you will see on your next hike, and the one after that, and the one after that, and the one after ----
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Looks like a Junior High School science project,
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This review is from: A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer (Paperback)
This book appears to have been slapped together with less than two weeks of work. I was constantly confused by discrepancies between the descriptions and the photographs. Lichens described as bright green, chartreuse, orange, red, etc., were all about the same dull shade of gray-brown in the pictures. This may be due to poor photography, poor reproduction, or the fact that the lichens pictured are old dessicated herbarium specimens rather than living lichens in their natural setting.
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A Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer by James N. Corbridge (Paperback - July 1, 1998)
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