Product Description

For wilderness travelers and backyard naturalists alike, the sheer number and variety of North American trees can make identification a daunting task. For those who have struggled to distinguish the Pacific Yew from the Redwood or the Quaking Aspen from the Fremont Cottonwood comes Trees of the U.S., a user-friendly series of field guides. Ingeniously organized to allow for easy reference, each book in the series offers complete coverage of a given region of the United States and includes detailed and accurate illustrations of each species. Best of all, these guides are compact and lightweight, making them easy to throw in a pack and take along on a hike or camping trip.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1001361 in Books
• Brand: Stackpole Books
• Published on: 2005-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 103 pages

About the Author
George A. Petrides is the author of the Peterson Field Guides to eastern and western trees and a former professor of wildlife ecology at Michigan State University. Olivia Petrides is an adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Customer Reviews

Not in color, but handy.
Enjoying this book. It is well organized and includes many species that are imported to the PNW, not just native species.

The book could use more color, but it is inexpensive and a book that can take abuse outdoors and not feel bad about maybe ruining it.

Tell the trees from the forest
A good field guide in a compact size that won't crowd a day pack or adequate pocket(4.5" X 7.25"). Very good drawings of twigs, seeds, leaves or needles, and often of the tree-shape, all aid in regional tree indentification.