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Summary: Thank you Mr. Brugman!!!
Review: I bought this book for my High School Biology class, where we were doing a project on the native plants of the Pacific Northwest. My instructor had four of these, and he reccomended that we each go to the Mount St. Helen's Visitor's Center and buy a copy. Boy, will I never regret it!!! We had to pick at least 80 plant samples, give the common name, species name, descriptors and other information about the plant. With this book, the whole project was a breeze. I got an easy "A" on the project, but I am sure I couldn't have done it without this book.I will never regret buying "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast." Wonderful resource. SAD NOTE: This book was so good that, sadly, our instructor had three of them stolen from him.
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Summary: Highly Useful
Review: I bought this book to assist with a habitat assessment for a stream monitoring class. Consequently, I have used it often to identify the local flora in my area. In addition to being user-friendly, the info provided on Native American plant usage was highly interesting to a history/political science geek such as myself!
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Summary: Highly Useful
Review: I bought this book to assist with a habitat assessment for a stream monitoring class. Consequently, I have used it often to identify the local flora in my area. In addition to being user-friendly, the info provided on Native American plant usage was highly interesting to a history/political science geek such as myself!
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Summary: Awesome updated version of Plants&Animals of Pac. NW!
Review: I first saw this in my local library. We have '78 Plants & Animals Of The Pacific Northwest, but I was still hungry for more info on native plants of this area. So i sat down and I was so impressed and blown away! It answered a lot of my burning questions about beautiful wild plants I wanted to know about and things I'd never known before! For my birthday my dad let me use his credit card and I drove straight to the bookstore and bought that book! It was and still is a cherished part of my collection!
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Summary: The best field guide of the northwest
Review: I have about thirty field guides on geology, fungi, plants, and wildlife generally focusing on the Northwest. I consider this to be best field guide of all - the standard by which other field guides should be measured. It is fairly comprehensive. It is concise and user-friendly. The color photographs are generally guide good. It even has occasional bits of interesting trivia to help you get familiar with the plant in question. I have heard from a biology student that there were a couple minor inaccuracies in the taxonomic classification, but unless you are a professional whose career depends on total precision, this book is your best bet. Buy it and get out and get to know your land a little better. Have fun but stay on the trails!
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Summary: A superb guide
Review: I have almost 100 different plant identification guides alone; some quite specialized (such as the ones I have on lichens, mycology, or marine algae), and others more general, and this is probably the best general guide organized by region that I have. I like it even better than the Audubon Society Pacific Coast guide, or their Forests, Western Region, Guide, which are also useful books, but as they cover both animals and plants, of course the coverage can't be as complete on the plants as this book is. The nature photography in these books just gets better over the years, and this book is no exception. The photos are truly excellent, and the identification notes in books like these have also improved substantially over the years. This book is no exception. I was formally trained in botany and plant taxonomy for a while, almost completing a master's degree in the subject once, and I feel I know a good plant guide when I see it, and this is a fine book. Unless you want to get into truly professional-level plant taxonomies, which would usually require separate books on trees, flowers, lichens, etc., not to mention the greater technical knowlege required, I think this is the best overall identification guide around. It can't cover everything, of course, but it covers the most important and most common species. Overall, this is a quality guide and a great book to take with you on trips, hikes, outings, or whatever.
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Summary: Very useful
Review: I have several other plant identification books. This is the best one by far for my area (the central Oregon coast). The information beyond simple plant identification is exceptionally useful.
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Summary: This is a must-have for anyone interested in PNW plants.
Review: I use this book constantly to identify Pacific Northwest plants and get information about the conditions under which they grow in the wild. The pictures are especially helpful. Ethnobotanical information is interesting, too.
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Summary: Very easy to use
Review: I wanted a guide to help me identify all the flora on my property after moving here from the Midwest. But I have found it to be a great thing to have along while hiking, too. The historical and cultural tidbits are a very nice touch.
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Summary: Includes how Northwest Indian tribes used each plant.
Review: Names native tribes of the Northwest and describes how they used each plant, and presents most entries with either color photographs or drawings, covering everything from large trees down to grasses, sedges, lichens and mosses. The habitat and geographic subregion of each species is given.
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