Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees

by Stephen Arno, Ramona Hammerly (Illustrator)

Overview

• Perennial favorite in a new, convenient field-guide size
• Concise natural history facts about more than 60 native species

No other guide duplicates Arno and Hammerly’s blend of expertise and visual artistry. Covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and north into Canada, they identify and illustrate more than 60 species of indigenous Northwestern trees by characteristic shape, size, needles or leaves, and cones or seeds. This essential guide:

• Provides an easy-to-use illustrated identification key based on the most reliable and non-technical features of each species
• Features the ecology and human history associated with all Northwest trees
• Includes 185 exceptionally accurate drawings as well as historical photos that bring these trees to life

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680513295
Publisher:	Mountaineers Books, The
Publication date:	08/12/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	638,351
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen F. Arno holds a PhD in forestry and plant science and is retired from a career as a research forester with the US Forest Service. Since 1973, he has authored or co-authored six books about forests and trees, including two Mountaineers Books titles, Northwest Trees and Timberline.

Ramona P. Hammerly is a native of the Puget Sound region. She illustrated the original edition of Northwest Trees in 1977 and also provided new illustrations for the 2007 anniversary edition.

Table of Contents

Map of the Greater Northwest 6

Introduction 7

Identification Key for Northwest Trees 11

Part 1 Conifers

Western White Pine 25

Sugar Pine 30

Whitebark Pine 35

Limber Pine 43

Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine 49

Knobcone Pine 58

Lodgepole and Shore Pine 61

Western Larch 70

Alpine Larch 76

Sitka Spruce 83

Engelmann and Brewer Spruce 91

White Spruce and Its Hybrids 97

Douglas-fir 101

Western Hemlock 110

Mountain Hemlock 117

Pacific Silver Fir 122

Grand and White Fir 128

Subalpine Fir 135

Noble and Shasta Red Fir 143

Incense-cedar 149

Western Redcedar 155

Yellow-cedar 163

Port Orford-cedar 169

Junipers and Modoc Cypress 174

Pacific Yew and Redwood 181

Part 2 Broad-Leaved Trees

Willows 190

Black Cottonwood and Its Relatives 196

Quaking Aspen 203

Alders 208

Paper and Water Birch 215

Golden Chinkapin 221

Tanoak 225

Oregon White or Garry Oak 229

California Black Oak 234

Canyon Live Oak 239

Native Fruit Trees 241

Bigleaf Maple 251

Smaller Maples 257

Cascara 262

Pacific Dogwood 267

Pacific Madrone 271

California-laurel 277

Oregon Ash 280

Naturalized Trees 283

Acknowledgments 289

References 290

Index 297

Editorial Reviews

The artistry matches the outstanding details for this useful field guide that helps the viewer to identify the trees by their specific features including shapes, size, needles, cones, and seeds. For those venturing into the northwest forest, this is the guide.

Portland Book Review