Reading the Forested Landscape

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Reading the Forested Landscape

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Summary

Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes.

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Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels

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 dominant in one patch of forest and maples in another? What happened to the American chestnut? Turn to this book for the answers, and no walk in the woods will ever be the same.

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"The etchings in Reading the Forested Landscape are fabulous and the text is more entertaining than The Disney Channel" -- Brian Downey - Peterborough, NH Transcript
"Tom Wessels evokes ancient logging roads from the weathered scars on trees deep in the New England forest.....he brings alive the intricate, interwoven, and ever-changing story of his region. I feel grateful for this illuminating and beautifully written book." -- John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home
Tom Wessels is an ecologist and the author of Reading the Forested Landscape and Forest Forensics. He is the director of the Environmental Biology program at Antioch New England Graduate School. Brian D. Cohen is a printmaker, artist, teacher, and publisher of fine edition letterpress books.
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ISBN 13 9780881504200
ISBN 10 0881504203
Title Reading the Forested Landscape
Author Tom Wessels
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 1999-04-14
Number of pages 200
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.