A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest ForestsIn one easy-to-carry volume, this comprehensive field guide includes plants and wildlife it would otherwise take ten field guides to cover - all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. With 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, beetles, and other insects, this is the one field guide to carry! |
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Contents
How TO USE THIS BOOK I | |
PinyonJuniper Forest 244 | |
WIttESPREAt t WESTERN MAMMALS ANt t BIRttS 59 | |
SOUTH TEXAS FORESTS | |
ARROYO AND DESERT SCRUB 265 | |
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORESTS | |
GREAT PLAINS FORESTS | 96 |
Common terms and phrases
abundant alpine American animals areas Arizona bark bird species Black Hills Blue brown Canyon Cedar Elm Chickadee Chipmunk color Colorado common Common Raven cones conifers cottonwoods Dark-eyed Junco deciduous dense desert Douglas-fir Eastern ecology Edwards Plateau elevations Engelmann Spruce feed feet females fire flocks flowers Flycatcher foraging grasses grassland gray green grow habitat Hawk herds Horned inches INOICATOR insects Junco Juniper Kinghird leaves Limber Pine Lizard Lodgepole Pine look Lower Rio males mammals Marmots Mexican Mexico National Park needles nest North America northern Northern Flicker numbers Nuthatch occur Oriole Pine forests Pinyon Pinyon Jays plants PLATE Ponderosa Pine prairie predators range reddish Ringed Kingfisher Rock Rocky Mountains rump Saguaro seeds shrubs slopes soil southern Sparrow Squirrel Steller's Jay Suhalpine summer Texas throughout the West trees tundra usually Vireo vultures Warbler western Whitetail Deer wildflowers wildlife wings winter Woodpecker Wren yellow
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests Volume 51 of Peterson field guide series |
| Author | John C. Kricher |
| Photographs by | John C. Kricher |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0395928974, 9780395928974 |
| Length | 374 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Plants / Trees |
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