No comments about Champion Maps Washington/Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (Champion Maps).

1 comments about Nature Walks in & Around Seattle: All-Season Exploring in Parks, Forests, and Wetlands.

1. If you're new to the seattle area and want to explore the best parks around, this is the book for you. It has maps of trails in nearby parks, lists hours and features, and has two or pages of summaries about each park. It lists out which trails are steep, which ones dogs or horses can go on, where there are picnic facilities, parking, and anything else you'd need to know.

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No comments about The Thomas Guide Kitsap County, Washington: Street Guide (Thomas Guide Kitsap County Street Guide).

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3 comments about Trees of Seattle: The Complete Tree-Finder's Guide to the City's 740 Varieties.

1. When this book was published in 1990, it virtually created a new genre: the local tree guide. By combining clear, simple descriptions of hundreds of local area species (about 30 native, and the rest ornamental) and providing information on where you could go see the tree, it became possible for people to both learn a wide variety of trees and to learn more about the natural heritage of a place - in this case, Seattle. A second edition of this book has just (February 2006) been published; it contains almost twice as many species, many more color photographs, and a far longer list of specimen trees.



2. This book is great. We use it at least a couple of times a week for ecological restoration.



3. We use this book whenever we are thinking about planting a tree in our yard. For some reason, everything seems to grow far bigger than the nursery tags indicate, and many species look far different when young than as more mature trees. It's great to be able to see not only pictures, but to be able to drive to specific locations to see the tree in a mature state, as it may look in our own yard in many years. That's prevented a few "mistakes" in selection.

No comments about Urban Walks, 23 Walks through Seattle's Parks and Neighborhoods.

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No comments about Summit Guide to the Cascade Volcanoes (Falcon Guides Mountain Climbing).