Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees
Easily Identify the Trees You Find on the Pacific Coast!

Enjoy learning to identify trees with this guide from author Tom Watts. 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. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

This is the classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the names of trees since publication of the first edition.

Features:

  • Identifies native trees, and some widely introduced or naturalized species, of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California
  • Uses Latin names of trees that grow in California that conform to the University of California's 1993 Jepson Manual, as well as more recent name changes
  • Belongs to the Finders series of pocket guides to native plants and animals of the United States and Canada
  • Uses a dichotomous key format for accurate identification, like all plant guides in the series
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Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees
Easily Identify the Trees You Find on the Pacific Coast!

Enjoy learning to identify trees with this guide from author Tom Watts. 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. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

This is the classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the names of trees since publication of the first edition.

Features:

  • Identifies native trees, and some widely introduced or naturalized species, of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California
  • Uses Latin names of trees that grow in California that conform to the University of California's 1993 Jepson Manual, as well as more recent name changes
  • Belongs to the Finders series of pocket guides to native plants and animals of the United States and Canada
  • Uses a dichotomous key format for accurate identification, like all plant guides in the series
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Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees

Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees

by Tom Watts
Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees

Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees

by Tom Watts

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Easily Identify the Trees You Find on the Pacific Coast!

Enjoy learning to identify trees with this guide from author Tom Watts. 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. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

This is the classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the names of trees since publication of the first edition.

Features:

  • Identifies native trees, and some widely introduced or naturalized species, of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California
  • Uses Latin names of trees that grow in California that conform to the University of California's 1993 Jepson Manual, as well as more recent name changes
  • Belongs to the Finders series of pocket guides to native plants and animals of the United States and Canada
  • Uses a dichotomous key format for accurate identification, like all plant guides in the series

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780912550275
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Publication date: 01/01/2004
Series: Nature Study Guides
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 64
Sales rank: 342,733
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 4.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 8 Years

About the Author

Tom Watts is the author of several books in the Nature Study Guides Finders series.

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If the tree has needles or scale-like leaves, go to this symbol below

If it has ordinary leaves, go to this symbol page 32

If there are needles like this: go to below

If the leaves are scale-like, go to page 26

If the needles are bundled together like this: go to next page

If they're not bundled, go to page 18

Table of Contents

Species List
  • Pine
  • Larch
  • Parry pinyon
  • Foxtail pine
  • Western bristlecone pine
  • Torrey pine
  • Whitebark pine
  • Sugar pine
  • Western white pine
  • Limber pine
  • Coulter pine
  • Ponderosa pine
  • Jeffrey pine
  • Gray pine
  • Knobcone pine
  • Monterey pine
  • Bishop pine
  • Shore pine
  • Lodgepole pine
  • Fir
  • Santa Lucia fir
  • Bristlecone fir
  • White fir
  • Grand fir
  • Pacific silver fir
  • California red fir
  • Noble fir
  • Subalpine fir
  • Spruce
  • Singleleaf pinyon
  • Mountain hemlock
  • Brewer spruce
  • Engelmann spruce
  • Sitka spruce
  • California-nutmeg
  • Redwood
  • Pacific yew
  • Western hemlock
  • Bigcone Douglas-fir
  • Douglas-fir
  • Cedar
  • Incense cedar
  • Yellow cypress
  • Western red-cedar
  • Port-orford-cedar
  • Giant Sequoia
  • Juniper
  • Mendocino cypress
  • Monterey cypress
  • Baker cypress
  • Sargent cypress
  • Macnab cypress
  • Santa Cruz cypress
  • Gowen cypress
  • Piute cypress
  • Tecate cypress
  • Cuyamaca cypress
  • Wester juniper
  • Rocky mountain juniper
  • California juniper
  • Utah juniper
  • Walnut
  • Black locust
  • Ailanthus
  • Peruvian pepper tree
  • Northern California black walnut
  • Boxelder
  • Hop tree
  • California buckeye
  • Elderberry
  • Ash
  • Red elderberry
  • Blue elderberry
  • California ash
  • Oregon ash
  • Velvet ash
  • Maple
  • Big-leaf maple
  • Mountain maple
  • Vine maple
  • Western redbud
  • Blue blossom
  • Western sycamore
  • Flannelbush
  • Oak
  • Oracle oak
  • California black oak
  • Valley oak
  • Oregon oak
  • Black cottonwood
  • Oregon crabapple
  • Fremont cottonwood alamo
  • Quaking aspen
  • Wayleaf silktassel
  • Mountain dogwood
  • California laurel
  • Eucalyptus
  • Madrone
  • Giant chinquapin
  • Curl-leaf mountain-mahogany
  • Pacific service-berry
  • Birch-leaf mountain-mahogany
  • Water birch
  • Tan oak
  • Hazelnut
  • Paper birch
  • Hawthorn
  • Sitka alder
  • Mountain alder
  • Red alder
  • White alder
  • Gooding's black willow
  • Pacific willow
  • Red willow
  • Pacific bayberry
  • Bitter cherry
  • Sitka willow
  • Scouler willow
  • Arroyo willow
  • Hollyleaf cherry islay
  • Christmas berry toyon
  • Western choke-cherry
  • Hawthorn
  • Oregon crabapple
  • Pacific madrone
  • Cascara
  • Klamath plum
  • Coast live oak
  • Interior live oak
  • Maul oak
  • Blue oak
  • Engelmann oak
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