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Summary: I thank Mr. Brugman (Toutle, WA) too!
Review: This book is awesome. I learned to love Biology from Mr. Brugman at Toutle Lake High School with Mr. Brugman and his required plant collection. Now I'm all grown up and homeschool my 3 kids with this book! My oldest boy uses it almost every day; searching outside and identifying plants. He is only 11 and has worn the binding of this book out! I've taped it all back together several times and now here I am at amazon to buy him a new one for his birthday! Very informative and easy to use book with lots of neat history facts about our areas shrubs and their uses in the past. Very colorful and beautiful pictures help with easy identification! Others wouldn't probably approve, but my little boy has done 3 of these collections for other high school sutudents who all received A's. (none from Toutle, of course LOL) This book has helped nurture my little boys' love of the outdoors and plants. Thanks again for the inspiring me to love Biology, Mr. Brugman. From ~ Robin (Berry) Hamm
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Summary: I thank Mr. Brugman (Toutle, WA) too!
Review: This book is awesome. I learned to love Biology from Mr. Brugman at Toutle Lake High School with Mr. Brugman and his required plant collection. Now I'm all grown up and homeschool my 3 kids with this book! My oldest boy uses it almost every day; searching outside and identifying plants. He is only 11 and has worn the binding of this book out! I've taped it all back together several times and now here I am at amazon to buy him a new one for his birthday! Very informative and easy to use book with lots of neat history facts about our areas shrubs and their uses in the past. Very colorful and beautiful pictures help with easy identification! Others wouldn't probably approve, but my little boy has done 3 of these collections for other high school sutudents who all received A's. (none from Toutle, of course LOL) This book has helped nurture my little boys' love of the outdoors and plants. Thanks again for the inspiring me to love Biology, Mr. Brugman. From ~ Robin (Berry) Hamm
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Summary: Useful for all!
Review: This is a useful guide for all from beginners to novices in plant identification. It is easy to use and provides helpful and interesting information on various Northwest plants.
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Summary: Useful for all!
Review: This is a useful guide for all from beginners to novices in plant identification. It is easy to use and provides helpful and interesting information on various Northwest plants.
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Summary: very good, very specific
Review: This is an extremely good field guide for the Olympic Peninsula, the Puget lowlands, and the wet (west) side of the central and N cascades in Washington. I expect it is also an excellent guide for soutwestern BC. It is not a good guide for the drier and sunnier areas of the Pacific Northwest; Its coverage tends to have gaps even in areas such as the the drier E side of Mt Rainier national park, or the Wenatchee mts which are on the eastern side of the central WA Cascades. It is not a good guide for southern Oregon, nor for eastern Washington; it was not intended to be. If you have questions this guide cannot answer on the west side, your only real recourse is the large, intimidating flora by Hitchock and Cronquist.When I am an other regions like Idaho, eastern Washington, or New England, I look in vain for a guide that works as well as this one does in the wet regions of the PNW. The illustration of a Noble Fir in my version of the guide is actually a Silver Fir; nobody's perfect, I guess.
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Summary: I use this book all the time!
Review: This is by far the best native plant guide for the Northwest that I've encountered. My family has amassed quite a few guides for local plants, but none come close to containing the information that Pojar and MacKinnon have put in this book. Plants are listed according to families, using common family names, though there is a glossary for the scientific names in the List of Keys on p 6. The pictures are for the most part excellent. The Notes are fantastic and I love the tribal use section as I have a particular interest in ethnobotany. The introduction also includes a great breakdown of the NW tribes and their whereabouts and distinctions. This book is very easy to use, making it perfect for the hobbyist, yet I think the information is exact enough with good identification keys and illustrations that hardcore botanists would find it a useful addition to their references.
It's a touch heavy to go hiking with, though if I weren't such a slug I might take it anyway. I usually take photos of any unfamiliar plants I find and then cross-reference when I'm home.
There is a revised edition coming out Nov. 30th, 2004 and I can't wait to get my paws on it! My current copy is completely dog-eared. I just wish the editors and authors (you listening?) would consider a guide to the Northeast coast.
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Summary: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast is outstanding!
Review: This is one book that travels with us wherever we drive; it is filled with bookmarks & scribbled observations whenever we've seen something new to add to Messrs. Pojar & MacKinnon's awesome efforts. Naturally they alone did not compile this book & it is an impressive & accurate effort of a large collection of dedicated people.An easy-to-use field guide featuring close to 800 species of flora commonly found from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatics, grasses, ferns, mosses & lichens. From shoreline to alpine, including the Olympics & the western Cascades. The perfect gift for anyone who wanders the land!..............
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Summary: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast is outstanding!
Review: This is one book that travels with us wherever we drive; it is filled with bookmarks & scribbled observations whenever we've seen something new to add to Messrs. Pojar & MacKinnon's awesome efforts. Naturally they alone did not compile this book & it is an impressive & accurate effort of a large collection of dedicated people.An easy-to-use field guide featuring close to 800 species of flora commonly found from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatics, grasses, ferns, mosses & lichens. From shoreline to alpine, including the Olympics & the western Cascades. The perfect gift for anyone who wanders the land!..............
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Summary: If you're looking for a book like this, this is the one
Review: This is the best of the books of this genre that I've seen. Well organized, great pictures, great explanations and descriptions, often interesting additional comments, and completeness.
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Summary: If you're looking for a book like this, this is the one
Review: This is the best of the books of this genre that I've seen. Well organized, great pictures, great explanations and descriptions, often interesting additional comments, and completeness.
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