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Bookstore
Featured
Items and Great Trees
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- Book Review:
Wild Trees Oct 2006
- Interview with Richard Preston http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/07/04/16.php#13067
Nov 2007
- Book Review: Trees - An Introduction to Trees and Forest Ecology for Amateur Naturalists by Laurence Walker
- Book Review: Identifying Mature and Old Forests in Western Washington by Robert Van Pelt
- Richard Preston, Letter from North Carolina, "A Death in the Forest," The New Yorker, December 10, 2007
- Project Gutenberg
Tree Books Jan 2008
- The Path of
Destruction: The Grand Rapids (Michigan) Historical
Society has recently published a book I wrote about a tornado
outbreak that struck western Lower Michigan on April 3, 1956.
What does this have to do with ENTS you ask? Well our own
forest disturbance expert Lee Frelich is acknowledged in the
book for his helping me identify several trees that are still
living and show the scars from the F5 tornado that struck near
Hudsonville, Michigan on that day. The background discussion
on this can be read here: http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/michigan/1956tornado/forest_disturbance.htm
The book is being advertised off the GRHS website. -
Ernie Ostuno
- Today, I found myself in Fargo, North Dakota on business, and
I visited the local bookstore in the heart of America's
prairie and was surprised to see the National Wildlife
Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America, coauthored
by ENTS' own Bruce Kershner (primary billing on the cover) and
Mathews, Nelson, and Spellenberg (also Purinton, Block, Moore,
and Thieret.) I think that I remember Bruce talking about it
or the concept of it at some time in the past. It's a good
guide with photographs of trees, branches, leaves, seeds, and
bark with accompanying range maps and descriptive text. One
down side, it lists typical heights and diameters but in most
cases, doesn't include maximum known heights or diameters. It
is a soft cover with a ruggedized cover material that is
marked "Waterproof Cover" - I don't think that
sweaty hands on a hot summer day will damage this one. The
paper and images are high quality, too. It's a nice book that
I'm adding to my collection. At first, I though that we missed
it when the ENTS library was created, but it has a 2008 print
date. This one is hot off the presses!!
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