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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Allen Sibley Staff Pick In his new book, David Allen Sibley shifts his focus from birds to trees, including gorgeous illustrations and fascinating information. The Sibley Guide to Trees will dramatically change the way you look at your backyard, your neighborhood, and the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Peterson Field Guide To Western Trees by George Petrides Publisher Comments This newly designed field guide features detailed descriptions of 387 species, arranged in six major groups by visual similarity. The 47 color plates and 5 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 295 color... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-By-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees by Allen Coombes Publisher Comments Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $38.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins Publisher Comments THIS BOOK JUST MIGHT SAVE THE PLANET “When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverb Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Trees of Greater Portland by Phyllis C. Reynolds and Elizabeth F. Dimon Publisher Comments The authors selected 132 local trees exceptional for their size, beauty, rarity, or history. Each description includes a color photograph and locations of notable specimens visible from the street. Appendices list trees by the months for best viewing and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Backyard Lumberjack by Frank Philbrick and Stephen Philbrick Publisher Comments Whether you're splitting a cord of wood for your fireplace or managing acres of woodland, The Backyard Lumberjack has the practical instruction and first-hand advice you need. You'll learn how to choose the right equipment and then fell, buck, split,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests by John Tappeiner Publisher Comments Once regarded solely as the cultivation of forest trees, silviculture is today shifting to a broader focus, one that reflec ts societies' changing forest values. In addition to timber management, the prac tice and science of silviculture are now... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Artistic Anatomy of Trees by Rex Vicat Cole Publisher Comments Art students at every level will benefit from this profusely illustrated guide. It covers every aspect of trees and how to depict them with unusual clarity and precision. Topics include problems of balancing tree groups, relationship of light... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees by Stephen F. Arno and Ramona P. Hammerly Publisher Comments How can you distinguish a Noble fir from a Grand fir? Or a Quaking Aspen from a Sitka Alder? Stephen Arno and Ramona Hammerly will show you how in their classic guide to identifying and appreciating Northwest trees. Arno and Hammerly have been studying... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich Publisher Comments "William Dietrich has gone to the heart of the greatest forest left in North America and returned with a clear and compelling story of why so many people are fighting over it. Like the towering firs of the Olympic Peninsula, this book will stand the test... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region (Audubon Society Field Guide) by National Audubon Society Publisher Comments All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Flexible
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The Remarkable Baobab by Thomas Pakenham Publisher Comments STANDING TALL on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions by Gene Logsdon Publisher Comments As author Gene Logsdon puts it, "We are all tree huggers." But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem by John R Luoma Publisher Comments The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World of Trees by Hugh Johnson Publisher Comments From well-loved oaks and pines to rare, spectacular species such as the snowbells of Japan, this lavishly illustrated work is an unparalleled guide to more than six hundred of the world's major forest and garden trees. An excellent resource for gardeners,... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pog Harrison Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us by Diana Beresford Kroeger Publisher Comments A lushly written, compelling tribute to trees-grounded in a wide range of scientific knowledge. Renowned scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger presents an unforgettable and highly original work of natural history with The Global Forest. She explores the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature Guide: Trees (Smithsonian Nature Guides) by Tony Russell Publisher Comments A new generation of illustrated natural history handbooks, produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution. The new DK Nature Guides form a comprehensive, accessible, and informative series of illustrated reference books that tackle key natural... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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