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 | |
GREAT PLAINS FORESTS 96 | |
SOUTH TEXAS FORESTS | |
ARROYO AND DESERT SCRUB 265 | |
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORESTS | |
Common terms and phrases
abundant alpine American animals areas Arizona Aspen bark bird species Black Hills Blue brown Brown Creeper cactus Canyon color common Common Raven cones conifers cottonwoods Creeper Dark-eyed Junco deciduous dense desert Douglas-fir Eastern ecology Edwards Plateau Engelmann Spruce feed feet female fire flocks flowers Flycatcher foraging grasses grassland gray green grow habitat Hawk herd horns hroad-leaved inches insects Junco Juniper Kinghird leaves Lizard Lodgepole Pine look Lower Rio males mammals Marmots Mesquite Mexican Mexico National Park needles nest North America Northern Northern Flicker numbers Nuthatch occur Oriole Peccaries Pine forests Pinyon plants PLATE pollination Ponderosa Pine prairie predators range reddish Ringed Kingfisher riparian forest rivers Rocky Mountain rump Saguaro seeds shrubs soil southern Southwest southwestern Sparrow Squirrel Steller's Jay summer Texas throughout the West trees Turkey Vulture usually Vireo vultures Warbler western Whitetail Deer wildflowers wings winter Woodpecker Wren yellow Zone
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests Volume 51 of The 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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