2 comments about Forest Plants of Central Ontario.

1. I used this plant guide in Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario) and found it useful for identifying major plant species of the area. This guide is interesting because it includes both a photograph and a line drawing of each plant featured in the guide. Plants are divided into lifeforms (e.g., shrub) and descriptions of each plant within a lifeform are contained in a separate section of the guide. The keys for plant identification are not detailed, but the objective of this book is to provide a simple, non-technical guide for plant identification. The authors meet this objective. For more detailed plant identification, a technical botanical guide (Michigan Flora by Ed Voss) probably should be used instead of Forest Plants of Central Ontario. I recommend Forest Plants of Central Ontario as an interesting, non-technical guide for identifying major plant species of the region. It is appropriate for more advanced botanists as a handy field guide and is also appropriate for investigators who have no formal botanical training but who want to quickly learn to identify plants.



2. This book covers a small area of Eastern North America, so it is easier to identify plants that you might find in say the Ottawa Valley, without ploughing through all the plants that only occur further south. It includes trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, sedges & rushes, ferns & allies, mosses & liverworts and lichens, all in one book. For the non-botanist this is the best book for this area (including West Quebec). Unlike other wildflower books that concentrate on flowers, this shows and describes leaves and fruits, making identification easier at times when there are no flowers. Charts and keys at the start of each section help in identification.

No comments about A Parent's Guide to Toronto (Parent's Guide Press Travel series).

1 comments about America's Ancient Treasures: A Guide to Archeological Sites and Museums in the United States and Canada.

1. America's ancient treasures (1993 edition) is a reprint of a classic first printed back in 1971. It contains a thorough recounting of every major and most minor Native American archaeological sites and museums in North America, and is an excellent resource tool for those interested in a serious exploration into North America's ancient past.

No comments about Exploring Nova Scotia.

No comments about Memoirs Of David Nasmith: His Labors And Travels In Great Britain, France, The United States, And Canada (1844).

No comments about Attack at Michilimackinac 1763 : Alexander Henry's Travels and Adventures in Canada in the Indian Territories Between the Years 1760 and 1764.

No comments about Northwestern Ontario (Backroad Mapbooks).

No comments about Beautiful Ontario Towns.

No comments about Historic Houses of P.E.I..

2 comments about Hiking Lake Louise.

1. The first portion of the book gives alot helpful information that is necessay for anyone thinking of hiking in the Canadian Rockies--from the gear needed for the hike to the precautions that need to be taken with hazards related to hiking. The author does an excellent job of linking each hike in a particular area to the next one, so that a hiker could possibly continue on right into the next degree of difficulty--if one were so inclined, or had enough time and preparation. Each hike is covered in very good detail, including: distance one way, degree of difficulty, elevation change, highest elevation reached on the hike, and location of the tailhead. Many beautiful colored and black & white photos were also included. The one thing that I thought was a little bit lacking was the detail of the maps. Several hikes in each area were included on the same map, and sometimes it got somewhat cluttered looking on the map. Overall I would highly recommend this book to anyone who was just a beginner or to those who wanted to strike out on the next degree of difficulty--all the way up to scaling some of the taller peaks in the Lake Louise area.



2. Three stars on the trail, but four stars when sorting through your photos. The author's photos and text precisely indicate what's what surrounding Lake Louise.
   
   My original feelings about the book as a hiking guide remain, as slightly edited: This book is compact because it is limited to general hiking advice and the trails in this one region. The trail descriptions are very similar in format to those in the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, which is just as comprehensive, but also a larger book because it covers more regions. If you rely on this book, read the trail descriptions carefully to see which ones involve a "scramble." I thought that too much was left unsaid about what skills are needed for any given scramble, and about whether you'd risk damaging sensitive areas by going off the trail. Maybe the author made a point of including only scrambles that wouldn't be damaging, but I'd have liked him to be clearer about that.