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| Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska | 
| Creators: Jim Pojar, Andy Mackinnon
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 20394
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1551055309
Dewey Decimal Number: 581.97111
EAN: 9781551055305
ASIN: 1551055309
Publication Date: November 30, 2004
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wonderful pocket sized book with great info November 9, 2008
This is a great book for the naturalist, whether amateur or field biologist, for learning in the field. The pictures are clear, information not too wordy, but enough to help with any id issues. This is really great for figuring out the plant communities that are so vital to the health of our natural world
The Best for the Northwest October 20, 2008
This is a staple for plant identification in the Northwest. As a plant biologist for the National Park service, this was the book we never went into the field without. Because of it's clear color photographs, thorough taxonomical descriptions, and wide array of species, it was the first we would consult, and then cross reference with other resources if we needed to. It's also quite durable!
Wowzers! Oh my goddy! October 18, 2008
There is no better field guide for the region. An incredibly good book. If throw 3 books into my pack before taking off into the woods for a few months -- this is going to be one of them.
In fact, while I'm at it ... this is one of the best field guides I've ever seen for any region. It's tied with the Peterson's Field Guide to Edible Plants of E. North America ... I love it. Delicious ...
pojar & mckinnon August 25, 2008
You can't call yourself a naturalist - amateur, professional, or otherwise - until you have this guide. It is clear and concise, with good tools for identification and great secondary information on the plant it is addressing. The pictures and descriptions make identification at least down to the level of family or genus ridiculously easy, but in some families getting an ID down to species or sub-species level takes a more in-depth reference guide. The keys are clear and leave little room for ambiguity, and the sectioning of material follows a logical pattern related to both ecology and familial relationships - rather than the sometimes esoteric partitioning based on strict taxonomy. The book itself is practically indestructible - I have dropped it (by it I mean my first copy, the previous edition) into creeks, mud, dust, sand, swamps and marshes, and down mountains, and it has come out mostly intact. It is also the only fieldguide that I have owned that has successfully resisted mountain rodent appetites (specifically those dastardly yellow-pine chipmunks). Like many field guides these days it also does a fantastic job incorporating native plant use into the descriptions. The only con I see in this book is it doesn't address the mushrooms (even though it includes lichens, which are halfway there).
To sum up it up, buy this guide if you spend any decent amount of time around plants and wonder at all what some of them are. For a more specific and accurate identification guide for the especially diverse or hard-to-identify plant groups (like the grasses), get a guide or key with more specific attention to taxonomy and more in-depth descriptions. It's amazing already what this guide does with the space that it has.
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast November 29, 2007
I found this book valuable for identifying plants associated with the lichens I collect. It is easy to use, the photos are good and I really appreciate both the range maps and phisiographic map (on the inner back cover). Dana Ericson
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