Fern Finder

Author: Anne C. Hallowell
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0912550244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
A pocket guide to identifying native ferns that grow in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast, and eastern Canada. Like other plant guides in the "Finders" series, "Fern Finder" is a dichotomous key, which leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices to the species being identified. Heavily illustrated with line drawings.

Track Finder

Author: Dorcas S. Miller
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550121
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Pocket guide to mammal tracks. Includes keys to print shapes and track patterns, discussion of scat and other signs, habitat information, range maps, and drawings of the animals and their tracks. For identifying tracks in mud or snow. Covers the eastern half of U.S. and Canada.

Berry Finder

Author: Dorcas S. Miller
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550220
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.

Life on Intertidal Rocks

Author: Cherie Hunter Day
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550152
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
This pocket-sized field guide identifies plants and animals that live in the intertidal zone of the rocky coast, from Cape Cod north to the Bay of Fundy, in tide pools, caves, and crevices, and on rocks, wharves and pilings. Explains intertidal ecology and how these fascinating and varied creatures--sea slugs, crabs, rockweeds, star fish, and many others--survive in the harsh and ever-changing environment between the limits of high and low tide.

Pacific Coast Fish

Author: Ron Russo
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550190
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Rocky Mountain Flower Finder

Author: Janet L. Wingate
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550206
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Pocket field guide to wildflowers of the Rockies, from foothills to tree line. As with all our flower guides, the step-by-step key guides you first to the flower family and then to the name of the individual species. Includes information about habitat and range, and a glossary of terms used to describe flowers and leaves. Author's line drawings clearly reveal important features for accurate identification.

Pacific Coast Fern Finder

Author: Glenn Keator
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Rocky Mountain Tree Finder

Author: Tom Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550299
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Learn to identify native trees by their leaves and needles in the Rocky Mountain region. Like other pocket guides from Nature Study Guild Publishers' Finder series, this book is organized as a dichotomous key. The key leads you step-by-step through a series of simple questions to arrive at the name of the tree. Area covered extends across the mountain West, from the Canadian Rockies on the north to the mountains of New Mexico and Arizona on the south, and across the Rockies and Great Basin, from the Black Hills on the east, to the eastern slopes of the Cascades on the west. New in the 2008 second edition: Scientific names updated. Range maps extended to include the Canadian Rockies. Metric measurements added.

How to Read the Wilderness

Author: Nature Study Guild
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797212370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
This book invites you to see the natural world in all its intricacy and intense beauty and become a knowledgeable steward of the wild. From the mountains to the ocean shores, from the wetlands to the deserts, North America teems with flora and fauna in delicately balanced ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. With this book in hand, you will understand the language of nature and see those wild places with new eyes. You'll learn to recognize the lobed leaf of an Oracle Oak, the webbed tracks of a River Otter, and the fine, cream-colored tentacles of a Frilled Anemone. This volume celebrates a tradition of knowledge established by the Nature Study Guild. For more than sixty years, the Guild's pocket guidebooks have helped hikers, campers, foragers, and explorers navigate the great outdoors. Now, the best of the guides' informative text and iconic illustrations are gathered in one handsome hardcover: the perfect reference for today's ramblers. FOR NATURE LOVERS OLD AND NEW: More and more people are invested in and curious about the natural world—from avid campers and hikers to those worried about climate change. This book, with its celebratory tone and charming vintage style, will appeal to anyone who cherishes the natural world. NOSTALGIC APPEAL: The classic nature illustration style evokes memories of learning about flora and fauna in childhood, making this a wonderfully nostalgic gift. BEAUTIFUL BLEND OF ART AND SCIENCE: This volume presents detailed scientific information in a gorgeous package, a deluxe hardcover that will grace coffeetables and bookshelves. It makes a perfect gift for anyone interested in biology or illustration (or both!). Perfect for: Nature lovers Hikers, campers, and foragers Environmentalists Scientists and science students Teachers and parents Fans of vintage illustration Artists

A Field Guide to Ferns and Their Related Families

Author: Boughton Cobb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618394067
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Presents a comprehensive field guide to the ferns of northeastern and central North America, and contains color photographs and full-page line drawings.