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Author : May Theilgaard Watts,Tom Watts
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550074
These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.
Author : May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550481
Identify trees and tree-like cacti in the southwestern United States with this pocket-size guide. You can appreciate and enjoy beautiful trees of the desert and dry desert hills, as well as some trees commonly grown in human-made oases! If you're curious about the trees and tree-like cacti that you see, then Desert Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use booklet, you can identify trees throughout the Chihuahuan, Mohave, Sonoran, and southern Great Basin deserts of the United States and along the northern border of Mexico. The book provides a dichotomous key to identifying desert trees. Simply answer a series of simple questions about the location, appearance, branches, leaves, and more. Along the way, professional illustrations by Tom Watts help to guide you to a positive identification. Book Features: Step-by-step guide to desert tree identification More than 70 species of trees and tree-like cacti Professional line illustrations with key markings for identification Small (6- by 4-inch) format that fits into a pocket or pack This guide is applicable to desert areas within the southwestern US states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Author : Tom Watts,Bridget Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550295
Learn to identify native trees by their leaves and needles in the Rocky Mountain region. Like other pocket guides from Nature Study Guild Publishers' Finder series, this book is organized as a dichotomous key. The key leads you step-by-step through a series of simple questions to arrive at the name of the tree. Area covered extends across the mountain West, from the Canadian Rockies on the north to the mountains of New Mexico and Arizona on the south, and across the Rockies and Great Basin, from the Black Hills on the east, to the eastern slopes of the Cascades on the west. New in the 2008 second edition: Scientific names updated. Range maps extended to include the Canadian Rockies. Metric measurements added.
Author : Dorcas S. Miller
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Berries
ISBN : 0912550228
These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.
Author : May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0912550015
Guide to identifying native (and some widely introduced) trees of U.S. and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Organized as a dichotomous key, the book leads the user through a series of simple questions about the shape or appearance of different parts of a tree. Includes 161 species. Illustrated with line drawings. The small (6" by 4") format fits in pocket or pack to take along on a hike.
Author : Glenn Keator
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550023
PACIFIC COAST BERRY FINDER By GLENN KEATOR - Handy identification guide to berries found growing along the Pacific Coast. Drawings and diagrams make for quick and easy use in the field, using major characteristics of each species.
Author : Tom Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550279
With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of trees along the Pacific Coast in no time.
Author : Janet L. Wingate
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550201
Pocket field guide to wildflowers of the Rockies, from foothills to tree line. As with all our flower guides, the step-by-step key guides you first to the flower family and then to the name of the individual species. Includes information about habitat and range, and a glossary of terms used to describe flowers and leaves. Author's line drawings clearly reveal important features for accurate identification.
Author : Phoebe Watts
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Wild flowers
ISBN : 0912550252
A new, updated edition of the classic key to identifying wildflowers that grow in the range of the Coast Redwood tree, Sequoia sempervirens, along the coastal fog belt of California. Organized as a dichotomous key, leading the user first to flower families and then to the species. Includes flowers of sunny openings, fields, and streamsides, as well as flowers of the forest floor. Heavily illustrated with line drawings that clearly show important plant features. The key format encourages users to look closely at plant structures, leads to accurate identification, and is fun to use. Names and flower families have been updated to conform to the latest edition of the Jepson Manual.
Author : May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Trees
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001202658
Author : Darcy J. Williamson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780359860999
Juniper berries, pinyon nuts, acorn meal, pickled nopalitos and prickly pear jelly are a few of the high-priced wild desert foods which hold prominent positions on the shelves of the specialty and the gourmet shops. Wild Foods of the Desert offers the homemaker and gourmet cook a galaxy of fresh ideas utilizing native desert food. Protected plants that cannot be removed from the desert floor without a permit are carefully noted in the text. Even these plants, however, provide edible buds, flowers and fruits which may be gathered without damage to their environment and without permit.
Author : Nature Study Guild
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781797212371
This book invites you to see the natural world in all its intricacy and intense beauty and become a knowledgeable steward of the wild. From the mountains to the ocean shores, from the wetlands to the deserts, North America teems with flora and fauna in delicately balanced ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. With this book in hand, you will understand the language of nature and see those wild places with new eyes. You'll learn to recognize the lobed leaf of an Oracle Oak, the webbed tracks of a River Otter, and the fine, cream-colored tentacles of a Frilled Anemone. This volume celebrates a tradition of knowledge established by the Nature Study Guild. For more than sixty years, the Guild's pocket guidebooks have helped hikers, campers, foragers, and explorers navigate the great outdoors. Now, the best of the guides' informative text and iconic illustrations are gathered in one handsome hardcover: the perfect reference for today's ramblers. FOR NATURE LOVERS OLD AND NEW: More and more people are invested in and curious about the natural world—from avid campers and hikers to those worried about climate change. This book, with its celebratory tone and charming vintage style, will appeal to anyone who cherishes the natural world. NOSTALGIC APPEAL: The classic nature illustration style evokes memories of learning about flora and fauna in childhood, making this a wonderfully nostalgic gift. BEAUTIFUL BLEND OF ART AND SCIENCE: This volume presents detailed scientific information in a gorgeous package, a deluxe hardcover that will grace coffeetables and bookshelves. It makes a perfect gift for anyone interested in biology or illustration (or both!). Perfect for: Nature lovers Hikers, campers, and foragers Environmentalists Scientists and science students Teachers and parents Fans of vintage illustration Artists
Author : Cherie Hunter Day
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550155
This pocket-sized field guide identifies plants and animals that live in the intertidal zone of the rocky coast, from Cape Cod north to the Bay of Fundy, in tide pools, caves, and crevices, and on rocks, wharves and pilings. Explains intertidal ecology and how these fascinating and varied creatures--sea slugs, crabs, rockweeds, star fish, and many others--survive in the harsh and ever-changing environment between the limits of high and low tide.
Author : Dorcas S. Miller
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0912550120
Pocket guide to mammal tracks. Includes keys to print shapes and track patterns, discussion of scat and other signs, habitat information, range maps, and drawings of the animals and their tracks. For identifying tracks in mud or snow. Covers the eastern half of U.S. and Canada.
Author : Ron Russo
Publisher : Nature Study Guild Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : 091255021X
Pocket-sized field guide to wild mammals of the Rockies and Great Basin (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico). Includes a sighting key to identify animals that are seen. Because wild animals are often elusive, the author has also included keys to prints, droppings, skulls and jaws, and other signs animals leave behind, to aid in identification of animals that are not seen. Includes information about biology of each species. Copiously illustrated with drawings of tracks, skulls, scat, and animals, and range maps.