Nature Guide: Trees

Author: Tony Russell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756698618
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
From the mighty oak to the monkey puzzle, Nature Guide Trees, a beautiful guide profiling the world's tree species. Part of a new generation of natural history guides, Trees is packed full of stunning images that reveal intricate details and unique characteristics of the specimens featured. Expertly written and including examples from across the globe, these guides will give you knowledge of the natural world at your fingertips. With a detailed introduction on the evolution of trees, tree classification and the types of forests and habitats that can be found across the world, Nature Guide Trees is the ideal tree identification guide.

Trees.

Author: Tony Russell
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781405375887
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Have the world in your hands with these compact, illustrated natural history guidesFrom the mighty oak to the monkey puzzle, leaf through Nature Guide Trees, a beautiful guide profiling the world's tree species. Part of a new generation of compact natural history guides, Trees is packed full of stunning images that reveal intricate details and unique characteristics of the specimens featured. Expertly written and including examples from across the globe, these guides will give you knowledge of the natural world at your fingertips.With a detailed introduction on the evolution of trees, tree classification and the types of forests and habitats that can be found across the world, Nature Guide Trees is the ideal tree identification guide.

Trees of North America

Author: Christian Frank Brockman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1582380929
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.

Tree Whispering

Author: Jim Conroy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983411406
Category : Plant conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tree Whispering offers a simple yet profound personal experience of communicating with Green Beings. This book introduces a revolutionary worldview that moves away from human-centric "we know best" attitudes and toward communication, cooperation, partnership, and co-creativity with all of Nature. It guides readers, step by step, to come from the trees' and plants' point of view while providing useful healing techniques and respectful approaches for rejuvenating tree and plant health. Readers will celebrate their strengthened connection with Nature. Whispering with tress, plants, and all of Nature opens up possibilities: For people, a heart-warming experience, a shift in thoughts and actions, expansion of healthy well-being, and reconnection to the sacredness of life. For Nature, vigorous growth for trees and plants, balanced and sustainable ecosystems, and coexistence among trees, plants, insects, diseases, and related organisms, and people. For Earth, reconstitution of dynamic balance on a large scale.

Nature All Around: Trees

Author: Pamela Hickman
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771388048
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
An essential introduction to trees and the vital role they play. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book covers everything you wanted to know about trees! Young readers will learn about the parts of trees, the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees, leaf types, the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, a year in the life of a tree and more! A two-page-spread map shows kids the trees that live in their parts of the country. ThereÕs even a fun questionnaire to help kids identify trees in their neighborhoods. One message is clear throughout: the world depends on trees! With so much to explore, this book is sure to inspire the ÒbuddingÓ tree-watcher in every kid!

Pacific Coast Tree Finder

Author: Tom Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550275
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of trees along the Pacific Coast in no time.

Illustrated Book of Trees

Author: William Carey Grimm
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741648
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 543

Book Description
Completely revised and updated. More than 30 new species described and illustrated.

City of Trees

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
Describes more than 300 species of trees of Washington, D.C.

Bark

Author: Michael Wojtech
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 9781684580316
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
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.

A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us

Author: Matt Ritter
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597141475
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
We bring the strength and beauty of the natural world into our urban landscapes by planting trees, and California is blessed with a rich horticultural history, visible in an abundance of cultivated trees that enrich our lives with extraordinary color, bizarre shapes, unusual textures, and unexpected aromas. A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us features over 150 of California's most commonly grown trees. Whether native or cultivated, these are the trees that muffle noise, create wildlife habitats, mitigate pollution, conserve energy, and make urban living healthier and more peaceful. Used as a field guide or read with pleasure for the liveliness of the prose, this book will allow readers to learn the stories behind the trees that shade our parks, grace our yards, and line our streets. Rich in photographs and illustrations, overflowing with anecdote and information, A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us opens our eyes to a world of beauty just outside our front doors.