Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

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<p><strong>Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of <em>Reading the Forested Landscape</em>.</strong></p><p>Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's <em>Reading the Forested Landscape</em>. 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?</p><p>Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key―a fascinating series of either/or questions―to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.</p> 50 color photographs