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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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Trees: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press (Golden Guide) by Herbert Spencer Zim Publisher Comments This Golden Guide describes and illustrates in full color more than 140 of our most common trees. Learn: -How to recognize tree shapes, flowers, buds, leaves, and fruits -Where each species grows -The parts of a tree and the various kinds of trees... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - 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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Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean Publisher Comments On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 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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Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan Publisher Comments Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial--a profound link that has almost been forgotten. From the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests (Peterson Field Guides) by Peterson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Publisher Comments As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham Publisher Comments The publication of Remarkable Trees of the Worldtook American audiences by storm. Now in a handsome paperback volume with flaps, Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Living Witness: Historic Trees of Texas by Ralph Yznaga Publisher Comments In a beautiful tribute to the natural heritage of the Lone Star State, photographer Ralph Yznaga celebrates the strong connections between Texans and their trees. Inspired by the old Texas Forest Service book, Famous Trees of Texas, ... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments Out of the Woods tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of the nation's history. How forests morphed from dark, unmapped infinities, to timber reserves essential to the creation of the American... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods: How to Maintain a Small Acreage for Long-Term Health, Biodiversity, and High-Quality Timber Production by Ann Larkin Hansen Publisher Comments Make the Most of Your WoodlandsWhether you own a few acres of woodland or many, A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods will help you become an active and effective steward of your forest. Beginning with an explanation of the natural processes... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - 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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Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Andrew Nikiforuk Synopsis Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest by Robert Parish Publisher Comments Over 675 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens commonly found in the region from the crest of the Rockies to the Coast Mountains, including the interior of Washington and Idaho. Detailed species descriptions are... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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How Trees Die: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Forests by Jeff Gilman PW Review "Horticultural scientist Gillman (The Truth About Organic Gardening) examines the astounding longevity of trees. Beginning with a provocative opener comparing the fate of cows raised for meat to the life-span of trees cut down to make paper for books... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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