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Laddar... A Beginner's Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast (utgåvan 2017)av Mark Mikolas (Författare)
VerksinformationA Beginner's Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast av Mark Mikolas
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Identify maple, ash, oak, and more with easy-to-learn techniques. Why does the world need another tree guide? How about one that distills the process into simple steps, focusing on key features like location, bark color, and branching patterns? Most identification guides assume a certain level of familiarity and rely on complex taxonomic deduction, which is why Mark Mikolas's A Beginner's Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast is an invaluable resource--it truly teaches the basics. Mikolas simplifies tree identification by restricting the region covered to New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, where fewer than 20 species account for 95 percent of trees. He makes learning to recognize trees easy, even when buds and leaves are not present. Over 200 photographs demonstrate exactly what to look for, so you can differentiate red maple from sugar maple and spruce from balsam fir with ease. This is a book to keep close at hand wherever trees grow. More than 200 color photographs Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)582.16Natural sciences and mathematics Plants Plants noted for specific vegetative characteristics and flowers Herbaceous and woody plants, plants noted for their flowers TreesKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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a) It is not a guide you are meant to flip through when faced with an exotic species of tree. It's meant to be used the opposite way - read about a tree; then, when you go outside, try to find examples of that tree. Preferably not while driving - I'm afraid this book has semi-permanently altered my road attentiveness for the worse. But that's my only complaint about it. Also, note that all the trees in the book will be common to our northeasterly region of the U.S.
b) The book has absolutely no dependency on foliage; hence it's useful year-round. Lord knows foliage can be in short supply for what seems like an endless majority of the time up here in the great often-white north. No, instead the book relies on bark, trunk, twig, & situational identifiers.
You'll also learn that the most common trees of the region are the red maple, as far as deciduous; and the white pine, among the conifers.
I haven't fully digested most of the details, yet. But I can now recognize sugar maples and elms by their shapes; and aspens by their two-toned trunks; beeches by their foliage clinginess all winter long; and birches by their peeling bark (though I cannot get the hang of telling apart the yellow, the gray, and the black - only the white birch is obviously what it is).
Also, identify white pines by their groups of 5 needles; red pines have two needles, and pitch pines three. Firs are "flat" and "friendly"... spruces are prickly.
You'll learn so much! ( )