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National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America Paperback – Illustrated, May 9, 2008

by Bruce Kershner (Author), Craig Tufts (Foreword), Daniel Mathews (Contributor),
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From the National Wildlife Federation® comes the most up-to-date, all-photographic field guide to North American trees.

 The Jeffrey Pine, Coconut Palm, Staghorn Sumac, and Western Hemlock: this single, portable volume features these, plus more than 700 other tree species and varieties, with special emphasis on their leaves, bark, fruits, and flowers. More than 2,000 stunning images show these trees in their natural habitats. Other features include: a unique identification tip for each tree; range maps showing distribution in North America; How to Identify a Tree section; a detailed glossary of tree parts and leaf, fruit, flower, and bark types; essays on ecology, conservation, and North America’s important forest types; plus a complex species and quick-flip indexes. The guide’s unique waterproof cover makes it especially valuable for use in the field.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1402738757
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Union Square & Co.; Illustrated edition (May 9, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781402738753
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1402738753
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.83 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.75 x 1 x 7.75 inches
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4.8 out of 5 stars
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I was surprised at how big this book is. It's a little bigger than a paperback, but it's thick - all glossy pages with numerous pictures & diagrams, notes, and longer informative sections. So it can be used both as a reference and to simply browse thru leisurely (it's not all just dry stats & facts). It might be too big & heavy to stick in your pocket as you walk in the woods, but it could easily fit in a backpack and it's size & scope mean it will be the only book on trees you'll need...until you go to another continent.Anyways, I'm very pleased with this book and I foresee getting much enjoyment and knowledge from it for a long time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty decent
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023
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I like it quite a bit so far. Seems pretty easy to find what you're looking for. Not regional so you have to filter through some irrelevant options. Shows/lists the fall foliage color, wasn't sure of that when I ordered since the examples only show conifers but happy to find that. Wish it had wood cross sections for color and ring structure ID. I like the organization better than the Audubon reference books.
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Jerry
5.0 out of 5 stars Thourough and easy to use
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2020
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I've always found plants to be confusing, and they vary much more within a species than birds. This guide makes them reasonably identifiable. It is much clearer than my (very old) Peterson Field Guide, and all the information about a species is on one page. At 700 species, it is reasonably comprehensive. And it has a key to guide you in identifying an unknown tree, which, surprisingly, not all books have. I don't see the point of a guide that covers "common" trees; what if you find one that's not in your book? Even so, occasional introduced trees, especially when chosen for landscaping, may not show up, or may be outside of their normal geographic range. It helps to cross check a species by its Latin name with the internet or a phone app for plant and tree ID, since common names vary from source to source.

Case in point: I struggled to ID a group of trees on the MA shoreline, which a phone app finally named as Robinia pseudoacacia, or False Acacia. This guide, however, gives the common name Black Locust, or Yellow Locust, and maps its range in the Appalacians, no further north than central PA. Apparently they were planted there for their beauty. The latin name allowed me to connect the ID from the app with the description in this book.
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Karl F. Riemer
5.0 out of 5 stars marginally portable "field" guide
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016
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Knockout book. It's exhaustive in scope and breadth, making it too much to be a genuine field guide (528 p, every one coated paper; thousands of photographs, reams of microscopic text; 835 g! basically both Audubon tree guides in one volume) unless you enjoy carting about a miniature encyclopedia of trees half of which have zero chance of being wherever you happen to be. But there are plenty of field guides. When you're home and want to figure out obscure, difficult, confusing or geographically restricted species, this is what you want. I'm not usually a fan of photographic guides but pictures in this book are unusually clear and concise. The obligatory phytomorphology section is here called the "Visual Glossary". There's a separate, small but nicely presented section of winter silhouettes. Included are a list of arboreta and another of references both material and digital. Exemplary is a good 20 pages on biotopes, and smaller sections on tree biology. The identification key is broken into 5 parts, distributed through the book at the beginnings of the parts to which each pertains. Each of those parts is color-coded, with terse descriptive headings on each page to help find the correct neighborhood quickly. Finally, dear to my heart, it's thoroughly indexed, every species mentioned in the book (and every family, there's a separate discussion of families) listed alphabetically by common and scientific name.
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PaulL
4.0 out of 5 stars VERY complete & well-organized for a compact guide
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2008
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This is more a concise small-format encylopedia of North American trees than a field guide. It's amazingly comprehensive, containing information on native species and a lot of cultivated imports. For a single taxon, photographs of leaves (on a white background, for clarity), bark, flowers, and fruit, along with the text, are arranged on a single page so there's no jumping around. Line art is used only to help define terms or help navigating the keys. The text contains a major identification tip to look for in each species.

As a field guide I think the identification keys are its weakest point. They start, as all lay-oriented keys, with leaf arrangement and shape, and then quickly move to flower and fruit characters. For most of the year you don't have flowers and fruits, so I wish the keys concentrated more on leaf details (margins, venation, size). Experienced enthusiasts will spend more time in the index than the keys; the inexperienced will probably spend a lot of time paging through, looking at the excellent pictures, for a pattern match. Because the guide is so comprehensive, though, there are a LOT of pictures to page through. It's printed on thick, durable paper, though this makes it rather big and heavy for the pocket.

An ideal combination might by this guide paired with May T. Watts' "Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by Their Leaves," only $4.00 from Amazon & truly vest pocket-sized. It has excellent keys for the layperson who lives east of the Rockies.

The Amazon price for the NWF guide makes it a steal. You won't find this much information about trees in one small volume anywhere else.

I give it 5 stars for the information & 4 as an identification guide.
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Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to have during every outing.
Reviewed in Canada on August 22, 2020
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The detail and the photos in this book are amazing... so well written and setup. It is perfect for a Horticulture students studies and just for those nature nutts that love to learn.
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Lorenzo J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fenomenal
Reviewed in Spain on July 29, 2019
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Un gran libro. Muy bueno. No se corresponde con la portada de la foto.
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David T.
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2014
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Good photographs and descriptions. A detailed overview of American trees.
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Jpmac
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful
Reviewed in Canada on February 14, 2021
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This book is very good for identifying trees while you are on a walk in the woods.
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César
5.0 out of 5 stars Recomendable
Reviewed in Spain on November 4, 2019
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Muy bueno y completo.
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