{"product_id":"forests-a-naturalists-guide-to-woodland-trees-paperback-softback-9780292791121","title":"Forests; A Naturalist's Guide to Woodland Trees (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292791121","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForests\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Naturalist's Guide to Woodland Trees\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurence C. Walker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292791121\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1990, \u003ci\u003eForests\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ecological, economic, and human influences on over thirty significant types of woodlands. Laurence Walker focuses especially on the effects of site factors-climate, physiography, biology, and soils-upon the growth of various kinds of trees. Projects for amateur naturalists, reading lists, and a glossary make this the perfect introduction for general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Changing Forest: Seeds and Their Seedlings \/ On Roots \/ Ecological Succession \/ A Little Knowledge Is …\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Needleleaf Trees \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Westward Wood: Douglas-fir: Taxonomic “\u003cbr\u003eConfusion Worse Confounded,”\u003cbr\u003e \/ Reforest-and-Stay-Put \/ When Clearcutting Is Not Evil \/ On Imitating Nature \/ When Fire Is Not Evil \/ When Red Alder Is Not Evil \/ Ecological Associates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Dwarf and Giant: Longleaf Pine: The Grass Stage \/ Growing Straight and Tall \/ A Needle Blight \/ Predator Pests \/ Seed for the Sowing \/ The New Forest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Tall Timbers: Coast Redwood: Sequoias Are Not All Redwoods \/ Four Factors of Site \/ A Conifer That Sprouts \/ The Shortest Distance Is Up and Down \/ Wood of Redwood \/ Tribute to the Chief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Murky Bottom and Droughty Land: Loblolly Pine: Indian Influences \/ Virgin Forest and Second-Growth \/ Clearcutting Is Good Ecology \/ Phenology \/ Habitat \/ Uses of the Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Ancient Wonders: Bristlecone Pine: Trees of the Past \/ Trees for the Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Redcedar Riddle: Eastern Redcedar: Cedar Sites \/ Measurements Follow Observations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Enduring Giants: Giant Sequoia: Sentinels of the Sierras \/ Sequoia, Chief Among Trees \/ Big Tree, Little Seed \/ A Riddle \/ Tall Trees, Tough Men \/ Climb and Climate \/ Ancient World, Old World, and New World Meet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Up from the Ashes: Sand, Pond, Pitch, Jack, and Lodgepole Pines: Tree for a Sandy Land \/ Tree for a Swampy Land \/ Tree for a Barren Land \/ Tree for a Desecrated Land \/ Tree for a Rocky Land \/ Trees for Many Lands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Mountain Heights to Low Bogs: Spruce and Fir Trees: Alike, Yet Different \/ Distinctions Between the Spruces \/ Flowers and Seeds \/ Spruce-Fir and Wildlife \/ Insect and Disease Attack \/ Uses of the Wood \/ Chemical Uses \/ Ecological Trends \/ Locales \/ Scandinavia’\u003cbr\u003es Presentation to North America \/ Names and Their Derivations \/ Big Trees Among Them \/ The Muskeg Bog \/ Appalachian Balds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Trees on the Range: Junipers and Pinyon Pine: “\u003cbr\u003eA Worthy Purpose,”\u003cbr\u003e \/ “\u003cbr\u003eBe It Ever So Humble,”\u003cbr\u003e \/ “\u003cbr\u003eThe Company One Keeps,”\u003cbr\u003e \/ Extending the Range \/ Holding the Line \/ A Nature Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Swamp Dweller: Baldcypress: About the Old Forest \/ About the New Forest \/ Woodland Cathedral \/ Blue Elbow \/ Knees and Swollen Butts \/ A Wood Worth Growing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Timber for a King: Eastern White Pine: Where It Grows \/ A Southern Highland Situation \/ How It Grows \/ A Northern Highland Situation \/ White Birch Nurse Trees \/ A Nutritional Malady \/ A Barren Land Reclaimed \/ Chemical Tests as a Tool \/ Foliage Symptoms for Diagnosing Ailments \/ An Insect Malady \/ Sunshine, a Malady \/ A Pathological Malady \/ An Environmental Malady \/ And White Pine Blister Rust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. From Monterey to the World: Monterey Pine: At Home and Abroad \/ Climate Preference \/ Soil Preferences \/ Discriminating Preferences \/ Chromosomal Preferences \/ Flowers and Seeds \/ Mycorrhizae-The Good-Guy Fungi \/ Some Pros and Cons \/ To the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Woods of Longevity: White-Cedars and Junipers: Atlantic White-Cedar \/ Acid Swamps \/ Seeds and Seedlings \/ Regeneration \/ Wildlife in These Woods \/ Problems for Atlantic White-Cedar \/ Northern White-Cedar \/ Northern White-Cedar Wood \/ From Seed to Harvest \/ Landscapes’\u003cbr\u003e Choice\/Cedars of the Brakes, the Glades, and the Basin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Pioneer Plant for Paper Pulp: Virginia Pine: Where They Grow \/ How They Grow \/ Christmas Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Krummholz and Elfinwood: Subalpine Fir: Associates Among the Trees \/ Associates Among the Lesser Plants \/ Associates Among the Animals \/ Spire-Shaped and Prostrate Habit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Sandhills and Flatwoods: Slash Pine: Sandhills Sites \/ Flatwoods Forests \/ Extending the Range \/ Scientific Exploration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Broadleaf Trees \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. Lost Bonanza: American Chestnut: The Tree That Had Everything \/ A Threat That Became a Catastrophe \/ Salvage \/ What After Chestnut? \/ Toward a Future Chestnut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. Oranges That Are Apples: Osage-Orange: An Old Tale \/ Oranges and Apples, the French and the Indians \/ Shelterbelts and Windbreaks \/ A Look at the Tree \/ A Drupe Fruit \/ Uses for the Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21. Cinderella Cellulose: Trembling Aspen: Bunyan’\u003cbr\u003es Toothpicks \/ Coppice Reproduction \/ Single-Sex Trees \/ Fire Is Not Alone \/ Cinderella, Did We Say!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22. Living Riprap: Willows: Kin to Cottonwood \/ Willow Wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23. Toxic Defense: Black Walnut: Allelopathy \/ Influence on Succession \/ Walnut Wood \/ Earlier Uses of the Tree \/ Walnut in Mythology \/ Appearance of a Noble Tree \/ Plantations \/ Silviculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24. From Cotton to Cottonwood: Cottonwood: New Trees \/ Ecological Characteristics \/ Tolerance to Flooded Land \/ Tolerance to Arid Land \/ Soil Moisture Regulates Growth \/ Ecological Succession Begins \/ New Forests Not From Nature \/ Management Matters \/ Usefulness \/ Some Pests: Insects \/ Other Pests: Fungi \/ Still Other Pests \/ The Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25. Species Proliferation: The Oaks: Casks and Pipes \/ Other Uses for White Oak Group Woods \/ Red Oak Group Wood and Its Uses \/ The Wood of Both Groups \/ Outward Appearances-Form \/ Leaves \/ Twigs \/ Flowers and Fruits \/ Spiral Arrangements \/ Taxonomists’\u003cbr\u003e Fun and Games \/ Champion Trees \/ Problems for the Genus \/ How Foresters Regenerate Oaks \/ Biblical Beards\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e26. Tree Legume: Black Locust: How the Bacteria Work \/ Roots, a Tree’\u003cbr\u003es Brain \/ Nitrogen Is Not a Mineral Fertilizer \/ Wood of Black Locust \/ Identifying Characteristics \/ Mesquite Story \/ Black Locust for Spoil Banks \/ Environmental Concern \/ Black Locust Problems \/ Final Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27. Ship Timbers: Live Oak: What Kind of Tree Is Live Oak? \/ Ecological Relationships-Dunes \/ In the Forest \/ Farmland Competition \/ What Kind of Wood Does Live Oak Have? \/ The Live Oakers \/ Moving the Wood Pieces \/ Live Oak Trees and Politics \/ Live Oaks as Monuments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e28. Stink-Bomb Tree: Ginkgo: Tree of Antiquity \/ A Matter of Mating \/ Leaf Spigots \/ Living Scissors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e29. Forests to Fine Furniture: The Northern Hardwoods: Climax Vegetation \/ Where These Trees Grow \/ Seeds and Seedlings \/ Uses of the Wood \/ Injurious Aspects \/ Conflict Over Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30. Tropical Hardwoods: The Dipteroearps: Two Wings \/ Ecological Contemporaries \/ Reforestation Efforts \/ Natural Regeneration \/ Big Fire \/ Socioforestry \/ Exploitation and Government Edicts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e31. Low-Mountain Shrubs: Chaparral: Fire and Development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e32. Tree-Like Monocots: Bamboos and Palms: Bamboos \/ Synchrony, a Physiological Symphony \/ Palms \/ See How They Grow \/ Other Uses of Palm \/ Cabbage Palms \/ Royal Palm \/ Washington Palm \/ Canary Island Date Palm Problem \/ Roundup\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Forest-Whose Woods These Are \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eForests for the Future\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530888179992,"sku":"9780292791121","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/forests-a-naturalists-guide-to-woodland-trees-paperback-softback-9780292791121","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}