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| Trees of Pennsylvania Field Guide (Trees) | 
| Author: Stan Tekiela
Publisher: Adventure Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 274472
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 258
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1591930472
Dewey Decimal Number: 582.1609748
EAN: 9781591930471
ASIN: 1591930472
Publication Date: March 1, 2004
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Product Description
Tree identification can be easy and enjoyable for everyone! This field guide features professional, full-page photos and comprehensive, accessible information about each tree's leaves or needles, bark, mature size, fall color, state-specific range map and more. The author's notes include helpful identification tips and interesting facts. Each book covers more than 115 common trees and is a great size for use in the field.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best tree book ever! November 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I beg you not to listen to any bad reviews on this gem...it's one of the best tree ID books I've ever owned! I'm an Interpretive Naturalist and it's always the book I reference when taking a nature walk. It's simple, concise, bright, clever and accurate and just about the perfect little field guide to bring along on those beautiful PA hikes.
 Trees of Pennsylvania February 25, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This Field Guide to the trees found in Pennsylvania is typical of a field guide that is written by an author not intimately familiar with the region. The range maps are generalized and don't accurately represent the actual distrabution of individual species as would range maps derived from research in herbariums with large amounts of Pennylvania material. The notes that accompany the descriptions are general and again don't represent an understanding of the details of the state's topography, microclimates, and general forest/woodland/tree distrabution. Not recommended.
Great little field guide September 5, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was in PA on business looking for a field guide for PA trees to utilize after hours when I found this one. It was just what I was looking for. It is a small book - the perfect size for carrying with you on hikes. Don't let this fool you though. It covers 117 species of trees that are easily found by "thumb-tabs" that quickly take you to the leaf arrangement of your specimen and then the leaf size. (The very first page when you open the book also tells you on which pages the specific leaf arrangements are found.)
There is a full page picture of each tree with inset photos of the bark, fruit, flowers and/or thorns. (The pictures are wonderful!) The opposing page describes the tree's specific ID info, including: family, height (with a picture compared to a house), tree, leaf, bark, flower, fruit, fall color, origin/age (includes whether native or non-native), habitat and range. Following this info is the "Stan's Notes" section which includes interesting info about the tree (uses, alternate names...) and expanded details on some of the descriptive characteristics.
If you live in PA and are serious about studying trees, you may need to get a more advanced book eventually as you learn more about the trees. However, if you are an infrequent visitor to PA (like me), a beginner in tree ID (would be great for kids) or just want an excellent small guide to carry with you on hikes then this is the book for you!
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