Product Description

This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. It includes 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, beetles, and other insects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #336638 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
John Kricher is a professor of Biology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He also wrote a Neotrophical Companion and several books in the Peterson Field Guide Series.

Gordon Morrison is a well-known naturalist whose work has been praised by Roger Tory Peterson as "Marvelous, beautiful, excellent . . . Morrison"s work is so inspiring that I wish such clear material was available when I was slowly learning ecology. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to Gordon for his interpretive skills as an artist. He is a superb teacher who uses visual methods." Robert Bateman likened his work to that of Albrecht Durer and Andrew Wyeth. Gordon Morrison lives in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.

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Prairie Riparian Forest Plate 4

Indicator Plants
Canopy Trees: Green Ash, Ashleaf Maple (Box-elder), Eastern
Cottonwood, Peachleaf Willow, Water Birch, Quaking Aspen, Bur Oak,
Chinkapin Oak, Shin Oak, Post Oak, Blackjack Oak, American Elm,
Bitternut Hickory, Shagbark Hickory, Northern Hackberry, Black Oak.
Understory Trees and Shrubs: Red-osier Dogwood, Pussy Willow,
Missouri Willow, Heartleaf Willow, Sandbar Willow, Desert Ironwood,
Black Raspberry, Smooth Sumac, Common Buttonbush, Common Witch-hazel,
Common Chokecherry, juneberries, hawthorns, Coralberry, Red Baneberry.
Herbaceous Species: Virginia Creeper, Trumpet Creeper, Trumpet
Honeysuckle, Winter Grape, Kudzu-vine (local), Globeflower, Stinging
Nettle, Canada Violet, Cardinal Flower, Solomon"s-seal, and various
grasses and sedges.

Indicator Animals
Birds: Eastern Kingbird, Western Kingbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak,
Black-headed Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, Bullock"s Oriole, Red-headed
Woodpecker, Green-backed Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, American Kestrel,
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Northern Flicker, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Wood-
Pewee, Tree Swallow, House Wren, Gray Catbird, Warbling Vireo, Yellow
Warbler, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-
headed Cowbird, Orchard Oriole, Northern Cardinal, American
Goldfinch, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow.
Mammals: River Otter, Mink, Muskrat, Raccoon, Eastern Gray Squirrel,
Eastern Cottontail.
Reptiles: Painted Turtle, False Map Turtle, Northern Water Snake.
Amphibians: Woodhouse Toad, Northern Leopard Frog.

Customer Reviews

Just Ok.....
I expected more out of this title, it was not as helpful for identifying local flora as I had hoped.