Description
Yosemite Natural History Association and Sequoia Natural History Association, Published 1973. Wraps, 89 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated by Jane Gyer with black-and-white plates and line drawings throughout.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Color illustrated wrappers with mild shelf wear; some white soiling and spotting to back cover; mild toning to edges and spine. Binding tight, staple bound. Interior clean and unmarked. Profiles thirty-six native trees of the Sierra Nevada, conifers and broadleaves, with notes on description, age, size, characteristics, reproduction, and historical and Native uses. The illustrations are by Jane Gyer, a Yosemite-area artist since 1956 whose work centers on tree forms; her color cover illustrations and the numerous black-and-white plates and drawings carry much of the book. Text by Stephen F. Arno, a forest ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service who came to know the Sierra as a naturalist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Contents: Digger pine; knobcone pine; singleleaf pinyon; ponderosa pine; Jeffrey pine; sugar pine; western white pine; lodgepole pine; whitebark pine; limber pine; foxtail pine; white fir; red fir; Douglas-fir; mountain hemlock; giant sequoia; incense-cedar; western juniper; California torreya; tree willows; black cottonwood; quaking aspen; white alder; water birch; California black oak; blue oak; live oaks; California sycamore; bigleaf maple; California buckeye; ash; Pacific dogwood; wild cherry; mountain-mahogany.