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Page 1 Western Trees A Field Guide Text by Maggie Stuckey and George Palmer Illustrations: Keith Bowers Technical Editor: Ken Bierly

Page 2 All illustrations by Keith Bowers. Front cover photo by Michael Sample. Cover illustration by DD Dowden. 1998 by Martha "Maggie" Stuckey and George Palmer 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce any part of this book in any form, except brief quotations for reviews, without written permission of the publishers. Editing, design, typesetting, and other prepress work by Falcon Publishing, Inc., Helena, Montana. Binding and printing in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data: Stuckey, Maggie. Western trees: a field guide / text by Maggie Stuckey and George Palmer ; illustrations by Keith Bowers ; technical editor, Ken Bierly. p. cm. Rev. ed. of : Western treebook / George Palmer, Martha Stuckey. c1977. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56044-623-4 (paperback) 1. TreesWest (U.S.)Identification. I. Palmer, George, 1939 . II. Palmer, George, 1939- Western treebook. III. Title. QK133.S78 1998 582.16' 0978dc21 For extra copies of this book please check with your local bookstore, or write Falcon, P. O. Box 1718, Helena, MT 59624. You may also call toll-free 1-800-582-2665, or to contact us via e-mail, visit our homepage on the world wide web at http://www.falconguide.com

Page 3 Western Trees A Field Guide At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Page 5 Contents Introduction: How This Book Came Into Being 9 How to Use This Book 11 Some Basics: The Root of the Matter 15 How and Where a Tree Grows, and Why 19 Learning to Know a Tree 23 Glossary: Scientific Vocabulary for Ordinary People 30 The Trees 38-138 Bibliography: Good Resources to Know About 139

Page 7 Any fool can destroy trees. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old treestens of centuries oldthat have been destroyed. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woodstrees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's timeand long before thatGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanche, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools. John Muir

Page 9 Introduction: How This Book Came into Being How does a book originate? In this case, we simply got mad. We love the outdoors and try to spend as much time as possible in the forest, backpacking, picnicking or just hiking for pleasure. We are curious backcountry travelers, wanting to find out more about what kinds of things are where, how they got there, and what role they play in the scheme of things. That means taking along some good reference books. But we are also lazy, and will go to almost any extreme to trim ounces from our loads, without inhibiting our capacity to learn from the books we take along. So we are on a constant search for just the right books. Tree books have always been a particular source of frustration. The books we had to work with covered too broad a range, or too narrow, or were too cumbersome to use, or too technically oriented, or gave us too little information: only the name, but nothing about the tree. "What we need," we often said, "is a book for ordinary, curious people." And so we ended up writing one. Our goal was to compile a book which is both interesting and easy to use. We wanted to include more than just a tree's name and botanical description, but also its habits, its uses, both present and past, and any unique ecological characteristics. We felt the book should include the trees which ordinary folks would be likely to encounter on an average trip in the Western states. We wanted it to fit into a daypack or a large pocket, and not weigh too much.

Page 10 Above all, we wanted a book that people could actually use

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