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US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998. Paperback. Good. A detailed guide brings to life the beauty, inhabitants, and various kinds of trees and plants of the Sierra Nevada forests, the California forests, t he Pacific Northwest forests, and the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. Original.
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A Field Guide to California and Pacific Northwest Forests Trade paper - 1998
by Morrison, Gordon; Roger Tory Peterson; John C. Kricher; John C. Kricher
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This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of California and the Pacific Northwest. With 53 color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, and other insects.
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- Title A Field Guide to California and Pacific Northwest Forests
- Author Morrison, Gordon; Roger Tory Peterson; John C. Kricher; John C. Kricher
- Binding Trade Paper
- Edition Rep Sub
- Pages 400
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date 1998-11-15
- ISBN 9780395928967
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Deserts Three deserts in North America receive virtually all their precipitation in the form of rain, never snow, and are thus called hot deserts”: the Sonoran Desert, the Chihuahuan Desert, and the Mojave Desert (described briefly in Chapter 6, California Forests”). Many of these desert areas receive under 10 inches of precipitation a year. Thus the species that live here must be able to survive on little water. Hot deserts typically contain many succulent species, which store water in their thick, fleshy leaves and stems. Cactus plants are common here, as well as a diverse array of yuccas and agaves. The Mojave Desert is dominated primarily by one species of yucca, the Joshuatree. Some hot deserts have areas where trees manage to survive, especially the various mesquites and paloverdes. Most hot deserts receive enough water to support some woody shrubs, especially Creosote Bush. Deserts vary with latitude. Those sufficiently far north receive some winter snow and are called cold deserts.” Lying between the Coast Ranges and the Rockies is the Great Basin Desert, the big brown area” that air travelers see clearly from 30,000 feet. This vast desert exists because moisture is so efficiently blocked by the surrounding mountain ranges that very little is left to fall in most of eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. The Great Basin Desert is a cold desert” though tourists traveling through Nevada in the middle of summer might disagree. These deserts tend to be composed of scattered but hardy shrubs such as Big Sagebrush.
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