Wild Trees of Idaho - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Trees of Idaho write by Frederic Duane Johnson. This book was released on 1995. Wild Trees of Idaho available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This organized, user-friendly volume gives reproductions of actual leaves and special keys to help the reader identify and locate tree populations.
The Wild Trees
The Wild Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wild Trees write by Richard Preston. This book was released on 2008-02-12. The Wild Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The canopy voyagers are young—just college students when they start their quest—and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast
Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast write by Robert Van Pelt. This book was released on 2001. Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees write by William Bryant Logan. This book was released on 2019-03-26. Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia. Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.
The Trees of San Francisco
The Trees of San Francisco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trees of San Francisco write by Michael Sullivan. This book was released on 2004. The Trees of San Francisco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
