Author: Glenn Keator
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This is an introduction to the native and naturalized trees of the Bay Area, which for this book extends roughly from Mendocino to Monterey and inland to Mt. Diablo.
Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Glenn Keator
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This is an introduction to the native and naturalized trees of the Bay Area, which for this book extends roughly from Mendocino to Monterey and inland to Mt. Diablo.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This is an introduction to the native and naturalized trees of the Bay Area, which for this book extends roughly from Mendocino to Monterey and inland to Mt. Diablo.
Native Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Woodbridge Metcalf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520315251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520315251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
The Trees of San Francisco
Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899977448
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Trees of San Francisco introduces readers to the rich variety of trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique conditions. San Francisco's cool Mediterranean climate has made it home to interesting and unusual trees from all over the world - trees as colorful and exotic as the city itself. This new guide combines engaging descriptions of sixty-five different trees with color photos that reflect the visual appeal of San Francisco. Each page covers a different tree, with several paragraphs of interesting text accompanied by one or two photos. Each entry for a tree also lists locations where "landmark" specimens of the tree can be found. Interspersed throughout the book are sidebar stories of general interest related to San Francisco's trees. Trees of San Francisco also includes a dozen tree tours that will link landmark trees and local attractions in interesting San Francisco neighborhoods such as the Castro, Pacific Heights and the Mission - walks that will appeal to tourists as well as Bay Area natives.
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899977448
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Trees of San Francisco introduces readers to the rich variety of trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique conditions. San Francisco's cool Mediterranean climate has made it home to interesting and unusual trees from all over the world - trees as colorful and exotic as the city itself. This new guide combines engaging descriptions of sixty-five different trees with color photos that reflect the visual appeal of San Francisco. Each page covers a different tree, with several paragraphs of interesting text accompanied by one or two photos. Each entry for a tree also lists locations where "landmark" specimens of the tree can be found. Interspersed throughout the book are sidebar stories of general interest related to San Francisco's trees. Trees of San Francisco also includes a dozen tree tours that will link landmark trees and local attractions in interesting San Francisco neighborhoods such as the Castro, Pacific Heights and the Mission - walks that will appeal to tourists as well as Bay Area natives.
Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Linda H. Beidleman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
"Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region is a user-friendly guide with excellent photographs that fills an important need in the botanical community locally. A good guide for students and beginning nature lovers, though even sophisticated plant enthusiasts will consult it for its easy style and useful photos."--Frank Almeda, California Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
"Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region is a user-friendly guide with excellent photographs that fills an important need in the botanical community locally. A good guide for students and beginning nature lovers, though even sophisticated plant enthusiasts will consult it for its easy style and useful photos."--Frank Almeda, California Academy of Sciences
Introduction to the Natural History of Southern California
Author: Edmund Carroll Jaeger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520006010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520006010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Introduction to Air in California
Author: David Carle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520245310
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"Before you take another breath, find out everything you need to know about what's in your air. David Carle has made California's most complicated environmental resource problem accessible and interesting."--Mary D. Nichols, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520245310
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"Before you take another breath, find out everything you need to know about what's in your air. David Carle has made California's most complicated environmental resource problem accessible and interesting."--Mary D. Nichols, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment
Introduction to California Beetles
Author: Arthur V. Evans
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520240353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Beetles comprise the largest group of organisms known to science, with approximately 350,000 species. This California Natural History Guide is aimed at beginners and covers only the 50 most conspicuous and interesting beetles of California.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520240353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Beetles comprise the largest group of organisms known to science, with approximately 350,000 species. This California Natural History Guide is aimed at beginners and covers only the 50 most conspicuous and interesting beetles of California.
E. Yale Dawson
Author: John S. Garth
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Mushrooms
Author: Robert Thomas Orr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Mushrooms
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Mushrooms
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Natural History of San Francisco Bay
Author: Ariel Rubissow Okamoto
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520268265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"After experiencing, researching, and writing about San Francisco Bay over a period of 50 years, I was certain that I knew all there was to know about it. I was wrong. Rubissow Okamoto and Wong have enabled me to see it in a new dimension--call it 3D or maybe even 4D." --Harold Gilliam, author of "San Francisco Bay" "This is an eminently readable account of the natural and human history of San Francisco Bay." --Rainer Hoenicke, Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520268265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"After experiencing, researching, and writing about San Francisco Bay over a period of 50 years, I was certain that I knew all there was to know about it. I was wrong. Rubissow Okamoto and Wong have enabled me to see it in a new dimension--call it 3D or maybe even 4D." --Harold Gilliam, author of "San Francisco Bay" "This is an eminently readable account of the natural and human history of San Francisco Bay." --Rainer Hoenicke, Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute