Trees category: 526 books
by Grace Brannigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Children's non-fiction picture book. Do you know where the wood for the furniture in your house came from or the lumber that built your house? What about those paper towels you use or the paper you write on in school? Come and visit with Mr. Logger so you can see what loggers and tree fellers do in the woods and learn about their tools and equipment "Hey! Mr. Logger".
Outdoor Math
Fun Activities for Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Fun and informative activities encourage kids to get outside, play with objects found in nature and learn about math along the way. By measuring worms, building snowmen and splashing in puddles, for example, kids ages 5 to 8 will learn about basic mathematic operations, shapes, time and more. All activities...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
Gardening with Foliage First
127 Dazzling Combinations that Pair the Beauty of Leaves with Flowers, Bark, Berries, and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Create a foliage-driven garden that dazzles!
Although seductive, flowers, by their fleeting nature, are a fickle base to provide long-lasting gardens with year-round interest. Tackle this problem with the advice in Gardening with Foliage First. Learn how to first build a framework of foliage and...
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants
For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the...
by John Vaillant
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.
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,...
Forest Types of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana
A methodology for identifying, projecting, and restoring our 8 local forest types
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
This book introduces and describes the local forest type expressions based on their physical environment characteristics; Soil PH, Topography, Hydrology, and Soil Parent Material + the correlated tree species. This information was extrapolated from cross-studying over a thousand acres of soil surveys...
Woodlot Management
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-70
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1981
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Mississippi Harvest
Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by oxcart and water and later by rail....
The Legacy of John Waldie and Sons
A History of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy...
by Alison Syme
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drooping lazily over waterways, shading gardens, guarding hedgerows—the willow tree is a poetically formed plant, but also a practical one. For millennia, the wood of the willow has been used for baskets, furniture, fences, and toys, while finding its place in the watercolors of Monet, Shakespearean...
by Marzio Iotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Un giovane uomo appasionato di fotografia naturalistica scompare. Poco prima della sua scomparsa una donna incrocia in modo singolare la sua vita e diventa involontariamente artefice della sua profonda trasformazione. La vicenda si evolve in un lungo viaggio - fuga durante il quale potenti e misteriose...
Black Hills Forestry
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The first study focused on the history of the Black Hills National Forest, its centrality to life in the region, and its preeminence within the National Forest System, Black Hills Forestry is a cultural history of the most commercialized national forest in the nation.
One of the first forests...
by Helen Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
For readers of H is for Hawk and The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard is award-winning author Helen Humphreys’ fascinating journey into the secret history of an iconic food. Delving deep into the storied past of the apple in North America, Humphreys explores the intricate link between agriculture,...