A Natural History of Trees: of Eastern and Central North America by Donald Peattie |
by Donald Culross Peattie
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by George A. Petrides
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by Donald Culross Peattie
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by David Allen Sibley
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"Both poetically evocative and deep with scholarly information . . . The descriptions amount to essays in human ecology." -- Thomas Lyon
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One of two genuine classics of American nature writing now in paperback; the other is A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America.
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THESE TITANIC TREES, with lobed or fluted and massive trunks, possess two barks, a very thick, furrowed, fibrous and corky outer cortex and a close, firm, and thin inner integument. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meshed veinlets, heartwood light brown tinged, vigorous sucker shoots, sapwood thick, sapwood paler, paler sapwood, light brown heartwood, pale lenticels, whitish sapwood, heartwood pale brown, braided ridges, minute stigma, lower paler, pubescent scales, thin sapwood, pale sapwood, small lenticels, minute calyx, male floret, rusty pubescence, orange lenticels, compressed seeds, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler, yellow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, New Mexico, British Columbia, Yellow Pine, White Pine, Baja California, Douglas Fir, United States, San Francisco, Sugar Pine, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Box Elder, San Diego County, Sitka Spruce, Alpine Fir, Puget Sound, North America, Rio Grande, Valley Oak, Vancouver Island, Forest Service, Western Hemlock New!
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THESE TITANIC TREES, with lobed or fluted and massive trunks, possess two barks, a very thick, furrowed, fibrous and corky outer cortex and a close, firm, and thin inner integument. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meshed veinlets, heartwood light brown tinged, vigorous sucker shoots, sapwood thick, sapwood paler, paler sapwood, light brown heartwood, pale lenticels, whitish sapwood, heartwood pale brown, braided ridges, minute stigma, lower paler, pubescent scales, thin sapwood, pale sapwood, small lenticels, minute calyx, male floret, rusty pubescence, orange lenticels, compressed seeds, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler, yellow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, New Mexico, British Columbia, Yellow Pine, White Pine, Baja California, Douglas Fir, United States, San Francisco, Sugar Pine, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Box Elder, San Diego County, Sitka Spruce, Alpine Fir, Puget Sound, North America, Rio Grande, Valley Oak, Vancouver Island, Forest Service, Western Hemlock New!
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- Ventura County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 34, page 370, and page 413
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- The Dying of the Trees by Charles E. Little on page 185, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ansel Adams: Trees by Ansel Adams on page 42, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place (Sketchbook Expeditions) by Teresa Jordan on page 16, page 18, and Back Matter
- Heralds of Spring in Texas (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) by Roland H. Wauer on page 35, and Back Matter
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