100 Best Forestry Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben

5.0

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they

Recommended by Emma Watson.

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The Overstory

Richard Powers

4.7

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There

Recommended by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Kearney, and Sarah Dry.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Feels at the beginning like a series of short stories, each of which has some important thing about a tree or a kind of tree in it, but also holds some human character. You’d be a very strange person if you came away from this book not caring about what’s happening to the trees. [source]

Martha Kearney

@omrgriffiths @BBCPM @RobGMacfarlane Great idea. Loved that book. [source]

Sarah Dry

I had the experience of having the revelation that the author clearly hoped a reader would have, which is that what appears to be a book about distinct individuals—almost a book of short stories— turns out to be something more complex, in which all the characters are linked through time and space. [source]

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

4.5

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural modernization in the Tropics - the 20th century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragi

Recommended by Marvin Liao, Clare Lockhart, Dan Sullivan, and 2 others.

Marvin Liao

Partner/500 Startups

I tend to jump from book to book and may switch if I am interested in some new topic. This is a pleasure for me (which I also do benefit work wise from too). It’s quite a random list because I have eclectic interests (or just scatterbrained most likely) on tech business, AI, general global economy, geopolitics, rising Biotech economy & history. I'm basically 15% to 50% into all these books. [source]

Clare Lockhart

Seeing Like A State. He’s quite similar to Dewey in a way. He also sees the state as only a mechanism. But he thinks that the way that the state chooses to count, or the way it chooses to see, will inform how it behaves and what kind of animal it becomes. Scott explains, for example, how in France, in early modern times, the state decided to count two things. It decided to count how much salt there was and how many able-bodied men there were, because it wanted to tax the salt and send the able-bodied men off to war. Now perhaps the state decides to count other things, how many healthy people there are, how many well-educated people they are… So that what the state chooses to count determines the parameters of what the state chooses to do. [source]

Roger Pielke Jr

A good lesson for people thinking about climate change, whether to create a global policy for carbon dioxide emissions. [source]

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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees

Roger Deakin

4.3

Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls -- the reader accompanies Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what li

Recommended by Robert Macfarlane.

Robert Macfarlane

@OliverPyle @emergence_zine Wildwood is such a special book. The brilliant illustrations in this new @emergence_zine version of the apple-chapter are by Naï Zakharia. She's caught the atmosphere so well, I think. [source]

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Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

Tom Wessels

4.3

Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down?

Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils

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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature

David George Haskell

4.3

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.

Each of this book’s short

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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

Eric Rutkow

4.3

In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.

This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Michael Pollan

4.3

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—s

Recommended by David George Haskell and Kenneth Cox.

David George Haskell

Through the stories of four familiar plant species–apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes–he demolishes the erroneous impression that we’re in charge. [source]

Kenneth Cox

You can’t fail to be fascinated by this exposition of the motivations of plants to cuddle up to humans. One of several excellent Michael Pollan books, it’s a fun read. [source]

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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.3

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series o

Recommended by Caspar Henderson.

Caspar Henderson

She writes vividly about what it’s like to walk across moss in bare feet and to notice it for the first time and to notice the incredible world within moss and the creatures that live within it. [source]

10

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

Timothy Egan

4.3

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men — colle

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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska

Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon

4.3

This best-selling field guide features 794 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatics, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens found along the coast from Oregon to Alaska. Color photographs and line drawings help you identify and learn about the fascinating plants of the Pacific Northwest coast. Engaging notes on each species describe aboriginal and other local uses of plants for food, medicine an

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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

Tom Wessels

4.3

An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees d

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A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods: How to Maintain a Small Acreage for Long-Term Health, Biodiversity, and High-Quality Timber Production

Ann Larkin Hansen and Mike Severson

4.2

Whether you have a few acres of trees in the suburbs or a small commercial forest, you can encourage a healthy and sustainable ecosystem through proper woodland management. This introductory guide shows you how to identify the type, health, and quality of your trees and suggests strategies for keeping your woodland thriving.

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Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1)

Jim Butcher, James Marsters, et al

4.2

Brief Cases is the sequel anthology of Side Jobs, and will be released before Peace Talks

Set to include the following stories:

An exclusive novellette from the perspective of Maggie and Mouse.

“Curses” — from The Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow
Takes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat.

“AAAA Wizardry” — from the Dresden Files RPG, published by Evil Hat
Harry teaches a group of young Wardens his

15

Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

Brendan McDonough

4.2

A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires.

Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Gr

16

Wildlife Anatomy: The Curious Lives & Features of Wild Animals around the World

Julia Rothman

4.2

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The Sibley Guide to Trees

David Allen Sibley

4.2

David Allen Sibley, the preeminent, bestselling bird-guide author and illustrator, applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.

The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a huge amount of information about tree identification--more than has ever been collected in a single book--into a logical, acc

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The Pine Barrens

John McPhee, James Graves

4.2

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.

The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which ar

Recommended by Brandon Stosuy.

Brandon Stosuy

@thewrens I really love that book. It's one that I've read a bunch of times—I saw it again on a different bookshelf the other day, and so brought it back to this pile, ha. This was my mother's copy. I grew up in Chatsworth, "capital of the pines." [source]

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National Geographic Atlas of the World, 11th Edition

National Geographic

4.2

Created for all global citizens, this universally respected volume of world maps has been completely revised and updated with fascinating visualizations of international trends and global conditions.

National Geographic's flagship Atlas of the World, now in its 11th edition, provides authoritative maps of every country, ocean, and region of the world, as well as thematic maps and accompanying grap

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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Paul Stamets

4.2

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.

The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essenti

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Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests

Ken Mudge

4.2

In the eyes of many people, the practices of forestry and farming are mutually exclusive, because in the modern world, agriculture involves open fields, straight rows, and machinery to grow crops, while forests are primarily reserved for timber and firewood harvesting. Farming the Woods invites a remarkably different perspective: that a healthy forest can be maintained while growing a wide range o

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Around the World in 80 Trees

Jonathan Drori, Lucille Clerc

4.2

Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration – not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup.

In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from th

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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis

4.2

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic

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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Michael Finkel

4.2

A National Geographic Best Book of the Year

National Bestseller

Many people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it--but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight did just that when he left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another person for the next twenty-seven years.

Drawing on extensive interviews

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Ecological Forest Management

Jerry F. Franklin, K. Norman Johnson, et al.

4.2

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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

Thomas J. Elpel

4.2

Book by Thomas J. Elpel

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Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

4.2

Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations: concrete

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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Richard Preston

4.2

From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of Rthe canopy, S and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.

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Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation

Tradd Cotter

4.2

What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster? How can

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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region

National Audubon Society

4.2

Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal field guide for any time of year.

Note: the Eastern Edition gene

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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Vicki Croke

4.2

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill

Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a “forest man” for a British teak compa

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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Philip Connors

4.1

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound

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Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon

Paul Rosolie

4.1

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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

David George Haskell

4.1

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature s most magnificent networkers trees
David Haskell s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.
Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees ar

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Birds of North America: A Guide To Field Identification

Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun, et al.

4.1

Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping Sparrow from its look-alike cousins. It's simple with this classic field guide, a treasured favorite among amateur bird lovers and exacting professionals. Recognized as the authority on bird identification, this invaluable resource provides:

-All

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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills

Tristan Gooley

4.1

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection

When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing wind; the scent of cinnamon suggests altitude; a budding flower points south. To help you understand nat

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Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

Lars Mytting

4.1

The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson–like thriller; it’s a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides useful advice on the rustic hows and whys of taking care of your heating needs, but it’s also a though

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Barkskins

Proulx

4.1

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests.

In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchang

Recommended by James Bradley.

James Bradley

The story is told through the lens of the families, but its real subject is the destruction of the forests of North America, and the environmental and human cost of that process [source]

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The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Douglas W. Tallamy

4.1

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Kerfe des Waldes

Gottfried Amann

4.1

Wer einen Blick in die hervorragend künstlerisch gestalteten Bestimmungsbücher von Professor Amann wirft, wird sich der Faszination, die von der Farbqualität und der naturgetreuen Wiedergabe der Abbildungen ausgeht, nicht entziehen können. Die praktische Anordnung der Bildlagen lässt auf einen Blick die Vielfalt der Formen und Farben erfassen; sie ermöglicht in Verbindung mit den prägnanten Texten

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Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

Mark Shepard

4.1

Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs — in your own backyard, farm or ranch.

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The End Of Nature

Bill McKibben

4.1

Looks at what we are doing to damage nature and what this will mean for our collective futures. This book argues that our view of nature, its role in our lives and consciousness, has irretrievably altered. It states that if the world is to survive, we have to rethink this relationship. It shows how much has changed - both for better and for worse.

Recommended by Gaia Vince.

Gaia Vince

The End of Nature is the fundamental book about the global planetary change that we’re undergoing. [source]

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Brain Games - Sticker by Number: Enchanted Forest (24 Images to Sticker): Includes 2 Foil Sticker Sheets to Complete Each Image!

Publications International Ltd., New Seasons, Brain Games

4.1

Get lost in a world of magic and wonder with Sticker by Number: Enchanted Forest. Features 24 whimsical images to sticker, including a white fox wearing a crown, a hare ringed with flowers, mushrooms sprouting from a buck’s antlers, and other woodland scenes. Puzzle designs range in difficulty. First, sticker an image with the standard sticker sheet, then complete the image with the special foil s

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Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions

William L. Graf

4.1

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Brain Games - Sticker by Number - Vintage: Forest (28 Images to Sticker)

Publications International Ltd., New Seasons, Brain Games

4.1

Beautiful artwork awaits in Sticker by Number: Vintage Forest. An ideal gift for the crafter or nature lover in your life. Features 28 full-color lithographic images to sticker, including scenic forests, beautiful birds, cute woodland creatures, and many different insects and flowers. Perforated pages make the book easy to use. Puzzle designs range in difficulty. Made for adults, but kids and teen

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The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-Ups

Gina Ingoglia

4.1

The birds, the bees, the flowers and the…TREES! How do trees grow? Why do leaves change? What kind of tree is that? The acclaimed Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s guide answers all kids’ (and their parents’) tree-related questions in an easy-to-understand way. It features 33 different trees that grow in North America, from rural Georgia to the streets of New York City to the California suburbs. Each prof

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Harlow and Harrar's Textbook of Dendrology

James W. Hardin, Donald J. Leopold, et al.

4.1

After nearly 60 years, with descriptions of more than 270 species and almost 200 illustrations, Textbook of Dendrology continues to remain a top resource for taxonomic and silvicultural information on North American trees. In this new edition, material throughout the text has been updated and expanded to provide current information on tree sizes, damaging diseases and insect pest, economic uses, a

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A Reverence for Wood

Eric Sloane

4.1

This refreshing and delightfully written book underscores the important role that wood has played in the development of American life and culture. Charmingly illustrated with author Eric Sloane's own sketches, the text illuminates with rare insight the enormously varied and useful qualities of wood.
Covering such topics as the aesthetics of wood, wooden implements, and carpentry, Sloane remarks exp

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The Tropical Rain Forest: An Ecological Study

P Richards

4.1

Originally published in 1952, this classic work represents an important record of what has become of the rain forest in the twentieth century. The completely revised edition includes new chapters on climate, microclimates and hydrology, and soils as well as an appendix on quantitative methods.

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Plants of Coastal British Columbia, including Washington, Oregon & Alaska

Andy MacKinnon, Jim Pojar

4.1

This easy-to-use field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens. PLANTS OF COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA covers the entire length of the British Columbia coast, from shoreline to alpine. Includes: • 1100 color photographs • More than 1000 line drawings and s

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Bodenpflanzen des Waldes

Dr. Gottfried Amann

4.1

Wer einen Blick in die hervorragend künstlerisch gestalteten Bestimmungsbücher von Professor Amann wirft, wird sich der Faszination, die von der Farbqualität und der naturgetreuen Wiedergabe der Abbildungen ausgeht, nicht entziehen können. Die praktische Anordnung der Bildlagen, wodurch mit einem Blick die Vielfalt der Formen und Farben erfasst werden kann, in Verbindung mimt kurzen prägnanten Tex

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Collecting, preparing, and preserving insects, mites, and spiders (The Insects and arachnids of Canada)

J. E. H Martin

4.1

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Tropical Trees and Forests: An Architectural Analysis

F. Halle, R.A.A. Oldeman, P.B. Tomlinson

4.1

This book is not an exhaustive survey of known information in the manner of a text-book -the subject is much too big for this to be possible in a relatively concise volume but presents a point of view. We are concerned ultimately with the analysis of tropical ecosystems, mainly forests, in terms of their constituent units, the individual trees. Many different approaches are possible in the analysi

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National Audubon Society Trees of North America (National Audubon Society Complete Guides)

National Audubon Society

4.1

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Algonquin Park: A Place Like No Other: A History of Algonquin Provincial Park

Algonquin N. Par

4.1

Newly published, Algonquin Park - A Place Like No Other will guide the reader through the rich history that led to the Park we know today, beginning with early indigenous hunters and gatherers, their displacement by colonist lumbermen, the formation of the Park in 1893, the growth of lodges camps and cottage leases, the challenges faced by early and latter day park superintendents, the development

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Shading Our Cities: A Resource Guide For Urban And Community Forests

American Forestry Association, Gary Moll, Sara Ebenreck, Dale Robertson

4.1

Shading Our Cities is a handbook to help neighborhood groups, local officials, and city planners develop urban forestry projects, not only to beautify their cities, but also to reduce energy demand, improve air quality, protect water supplies, and contribute to healthier living conditions.

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Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Thomas Pakenham

4.1

Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many of which are huge and immea

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Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture

Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

4.1

"Edible Forest Gardens" is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations: concre

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The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century

Gabriel Hemery, Sarah Simblet

4.1

In 1664, the horticulturist and diarist John Evelyn wrote Sylva, the first comprehensive study of British trees. It was also the world's earliest forestry book, and the first book ever published by the Royal Society. Evelyn's elegant prose has a lot to tell us today, but the world has changed dramatically since his day. Now authors Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet, taking inspiration from the orig

Recommended by David George Haskell.

David George Haskell

I chose this book first and foremost for Sarah Simblet’s spectacular ink drawings. [source]

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Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Michael Wojtech, Tom Wessels

4.1

Many people know how to identify trees by their leaves, but what about when those leaves have fallen or are out of reach? With detailed information and illustrations covering each phase of a tree’s lifecycle, this indispensable guidebook explains how to identify trees by their bark alone. Chapters on the structure and ecology of tree bark, descriptions of bark appearance, an easy-to-use identifica

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To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

Diana Beresford-Kroeger

4.1

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet.

When Diana Beresford-Kroeger

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Waldbesitzerhandbuch

Frank Setzer

4.1

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Gehölzflora: ein Buch zum Bestimmen der in Mitteleuropa wildwachsenden und angepflanzten Bäume und Sträucher; mit Knospen- und Früchteschlüssel

Jost Fitschen, Franz H. Meyer, Ulrich Hecker, Hans Rolf Höster

4.1

Seit der ersten Auflage von 1920 dient das Werk der Bestimmung in Mitteleuropa einheimischer sowie in Parks und Gärten eingebrachter Gehölzpflanzen. In den ausführlichen einleitenden Kapiteln wird eingegangen auf Nomenklatur und Systematik, auf Morphologie und Herkunftsgebiete der Gehölze, auf ihre Bodenansprüche und viele weite Hinweise.
Mit Hilfe verschiedener Bestimmungsschlüssel lassen sich di

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Gehölzkunde. Einführung In die Dendrologie

Horst Bartels

4.1

Der Band enthält das Grundwissen der Dendrologie sowie botanisch umfassende Darstellungen aller wichtigen Laub- und Nadelgehölze in Art eines einprägsamen Leitfadens. Im ersten Teil werden die Gehölzgattungen anhand von Beispielsarten mit detaillierten Zeichnungen vorgestellt. Aufzählende und erläuternde Beschreibungen folgen dabei im Wechsel, um wesentliche Zusammenhänge unmittelbar deutlich zu m

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Lehrbuch der Bodenkunde

Scheffer, Schachtschabel, Hans-Peter Blume, Gerhard Brümmer, Udo Schwertmann, Rainer Horn, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Karl Stahr, Wilke, L. Beyer, Karl Auerswald, Helge Stanjek, W.R. Fischer, Manfred Renger, O. Strebel

4.1

Böden sind eine unserer wichtigsten Lebensgrundlagen. Sie liefern Wasser und Nährstoffe an die Pflanzen, die uns ernähren, und halten Schadstoffe vom Grundwasser fern. Aber sie sind auf vielfältige Weise gefährdet. Ihr Schutz ist daher eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben für Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft. Ein Team anerkannter Autoren beschreibt in der 15. Auflage dieses renommierten und erfolgr

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Leitfaden zur Waldmesslehre

Horst Kramer

4.1

Der Leitfaden soll als Grundlage für Forsteinrichtung und Waldbewertung dienen. Er ist für Forststudenten sowie die forstliche Praxis geschrieben. Auf die Anwendung der Meß- und Auswertungsverfahren wurde besonderer Wert gelegt. Die Gerätekunde beschreibt einige neue, interessante Geräte

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O Akademia!

Zenon Klemensiewicz

4.1

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The Forest and the Trees: A Guide To Excellent Forestry

Gordon Robinson

4.1

Briefly traces the history of forestry, criticizes current timber industry pratices, and recommends a return to uneven-aged forest management.

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Why Wilderness: A Report On Mismanagement In Lake Superior Provincial Park

Bruce M Litteljohn

4.1

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The Legacy of Penn's Woods: A History of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry

Lester A. Decoster

4.1

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Our Priceless Heritage: Pennsylvania State Parks, 1893-1993

Dan Cupper

4.1

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North American Forest and Conservation History: A Bibliography

Ronald J. Fahl

4.1

Ronald J. Fahl has compiled a milestone reference work, one that offers historians and other interested scholars for the first time a reliable and comprehensive access to the widely scattered written materials that reveal the history of forestry, forest conservation, and forest industry in the United States and Canada.Sponsored by the Forest History Society and funded in part by a major grant from

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Trees in Canada

John Laird Farrar

4.0

Ten years in preparation, this is the most comprehensive book on the trees of Canada and the northern United States ever published.

Trees In Canada features:

136 range maps in Canada and reaching into the United States to southern Pennsylvania and northern California. A new easy tree-identification method in which trees are organized into 12 groups based on leaf shape and arrangement along the twig

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Gorillas in the Mist

Dian Fossey

4.0

One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in the Mist is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of

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The Secret Life of Trees: How They live and Why They Matter

Colin Hiram Tudge

4.0

Recommended by Jonathan Silvertown.

Jonathan Silvertown

Trees are not one thing. They are a group of things with different evolutionary origins. [source]

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Remarkable Trees of the World

Thomas Pakenham

4.0

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700-year "Old Methusale

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Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Euell Gibbons

4.0

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Understanding Wood

R. Bruce Hoadley

4.0

In this essential reference for woodworkers, R. Bruce Hoadley explains everything from how trees grow to how best to cut, season, machine, join, bend, and finish wood. Why do miters open and glue joints loosen? How do you get a really sharp edge? Examples of problems and solutions help woodworkers puzzle through their own projects, while full-color photos and helpful tables illustrate key points.

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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst

4.0

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben.

Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain. But what are the processes that drive these incredible phenomena? And why do they matter?

In The S

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Redwoods

Jason Chin

4.0

An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests

A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels--all the way to California to climb into the Redwood canopy. Crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders,

81

Jungle: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen

4.0

Dense and humid and filled with secrets, the rain forest is home to more than half the world s plant....

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The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

DK

4.0

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Faerie Tale

Raymond E. Feist

4.0

Phil Hastings was a lucky man-he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic-and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the cool. . .and the resurrection of a primordial war with a

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How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

Ethan Tapper

4.0

Winner of the New England Book Award A tender, fearless exploration by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert Macfarlane. Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper.In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time when ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth. How do we respo

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The Kingdom of Fungi

Jens H. Petersen

4.0

The essential photographic guide to the world's fungi

The fungi realm has been called the hidden kingdom, a mysterious world populated by microscopic spores, gigantic mushrooms and toadstools, and a host of other multicellular organisms ranging widely in color, size, and shape. The Kingdom of Fungi provides an intimate look at the world's astonishing variety of fungi species, from cup fungi and lic

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The Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees

Chuck A. Ingels

4.0

Developed especially for use by backyard orchardists, rare fruit growers, and small-scale growers, The Home Orchard offers a comprehensive look at standard growing methods, as well as some innovative practices that enthusiasts have developed in recent years, some of which are uniquely suited to the small-scale grower. You will learn how trees grow, which species grow best in the different regions

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Wise Trees

Diane Cook

4.0

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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

John Vaillant

4.0

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered w

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A Tree Is Nice

Janice May Udry, Marc Simont

4.0

"Trees are very nice," says Janice May Udry in her first book for children. She goes on to explain that even one tree is nice, if it is the only one you happen to have.

Some of the reasons why trees are so good to have around are funny. Some are indisputable facts. But in all of them there is a sense of poetic simplicity and beauty which will be sure to entrance any young child. Whether he knows on

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The Training of a Forester

Gifford Pinchot

4.0

The Training of a Forester is a classic silviculture text by Gifford Pinchot At one time or another, the largest question before every young man is, "What shall I do with my life?" Among the possible openings, which best suits his ambition, his tastes, and his capacities? Along what line shall he undertake to make a successful career? The search for a life work and the choice of one is surely as i

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Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944

Emily K. Brock

4.0

Around the start of the last century, the forests of the Pacific Northwest were viewed as dynamic sites of industrial production, and also as natural landscapes of ecological integrity. These competing visions arose as the nation’s professional foresters faced conflicting demands from lumber companies and government regulators. External pressures converged with internal scientific debates within t

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Raising a Forest

Thibaud Herem

4.0

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English Creek

Ivan Doig

4.0

In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place—Montana in the 1930s—that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.

The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep

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Foraging with Kids

Adele Nozedar

4.0

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Woods Whys: An Exploration of Forests and Forestry

Michael Snyder

4.0

A collection of author Michael Snyder's artful prose essays on the ecology and conservation of northern forests. A steadfast companion for anyone with a love for the woods and a desire to learn more about them. The author has served as the Commissioner of Vermont Forests, Parks, and Recreation since 2011.

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Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

Akiva Silver

4.0

The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology

Trees are our allies in healing the world. Partnering with trees allows us to build soil, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife populations, grow food and medicine, and pull carbon out of the atmosphere, sequestering it in the soil.

Trees of Power explains how we can work with these arboreal allies, specifically focusing on

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Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals Among California's Oaks

Kate Marianchild

4.0

A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Aco

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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem

Jon R. Luoma

4.0

Veteran science writer Jon Luoma uncovers the inner workings of an ancient forest, from the microscopic bugs in the soil to the giant trees.

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Bio Design: Nature ] Science + Creativity

William Myers, Paola Antonelli

4.0

For centuries, designers and artists have looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they developed the ability to alter and incorporate living organisms or tissues into their work. This startling development, at the intersection of biology and design has created new aesthetic possibilities and helps address a growing urgency to build and manufacture ecologically. Bio D

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Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

4.0

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years,