Description
From the National Wildlife Federation(R) comes the most up-to-date, all-photographic field guide to North American trees.
The Jeffrey Pine, Coconut Palm, Staghorn Sumac, and Western Hemlock: this single, portable volume features these, plus more than 700 other tree species and varieties, with special emphasis on their leaves, bark, fruits, and flowers. More than 2,000 stunning images show these trees in their natural habitats. Other features include: a unique identification tip for each tree; range maps showing distribution in North America; How to Identify a Tree section; a detailed glossary of tree parts and leaf, fruit, flower, and bark types; essays on ecology, conservation, and North America's important forest types; plus a complex species and quick-flip indexes. The guide's unique waterproof cover makes it especially valuable for use in the field.
About the Author
Gerry Moore is a twice married octogenarian whose second wife died three years ago. He grew up in a farming family in Ireland, in which he suffered serious abuse. He emigrated to England in his teens, and rarely revisited his family thereafter. He has made a life-long study of how to change and improve temperament, character and self-image, and the result is this book.
Daniel Mathews holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Reed College. His combined love of scientific literature and backpacking gives him the rare ability to synthesize science while transforming it into literary art. He is the author of Trees in Trouble and Cascadia Revealed and contributing author of National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States and other guides. He has worked as a naturalist-guide on cruise ships and on backpacking seminars as well as served as a fire lookout. Visit him online at raveneditions.com.
Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations throughout the world to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in embracing security at every phase of the Software Development Lifecycle and delivering software in a repeatable and consistent manner. Andrew has authored several publications related to the cloud native ecosystem including Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm and Kubernetes Secrets Management in order to share his knowledge with others. He holds several roles in the Open Source community and is a core maintainer of Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes.