Northwest Conifers: A Photographic Key

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Summary: Ideal for horticulturalists, gardeners, and campers
Review: Dale Bever's Northwest Conifers: A Photographic Key is designed provide a visual botanical identification guide to the northwest conifers. Avoiding the use of flower parts for species differential, and substituting full-color photography for technical verbal descriptions, Bever accurately portrays specific characteristics so clearly that anyone totally untrained in botany can easily key out any conifer from the northwest region of the country. Northwest Conifers is ideal for horticulturalists, gardeners, campers, outdoors enthusiasts, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in identifying the various members of this category of tree.

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Summary: The ULTIMATE key to trees in the Northwest.
Review: The ULTIMATE key to trees in the Northwest. The book takes the local trees and catagorizes them. I worked at a Boy Scout Camp over the summer as a Nature Counselor. One of the boys Dads showed this book to me. Being a a teenager I thought "I'll show him I'm smarter than the book." Well I beat the book most of the way, until the final question. Pointing to what I thought was A Ponderosa Pine tree, was actually a Jefferies Pine tree. They look exactly alike, the only two major differences were the Pine cones, and the way the needles smell when you break them. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in nature, and is a Teenager planning to work at a summer camp in the Nature department.