National
Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States
by Peter Alden (Editor), et al
If you're going to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, or Colorado (or live there
already), chances are you have an affinity for nature, in which case the
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States is a
book you'll want to keep close at all times. A durable book meant to be
consulted in the field and on the mountain, it starts off with a map of
the region, and then launches into an overview of the topography and geology,
the habitats and ecology, the weather patterns and cloud formations common
to the Rocky Mountain region. Part Two is the field guide proper, with
brilliant photographs and pithily informative descriptions of over 1,000
of the flora and fauna to be found there, covering lichens and conifers,
wildflowers and ferns, spiders and insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles,
birds, and mammals. There are vivid pictures of feral horses and mule deer,
an elk cow nuzzling her calf and a male elk strutting with his antlers,
and there are photos and write-ups for wolverines and mountain lions, moose,
caribou, and bison. There are also wonderful pages full of whirligig beetles
and margined burying beetles, hairy rove beetles and spotted tiger beetles,
not to mention the jagged ambush bug and meadow spittlebug. The flora section
is appealing, as well, with delicate western bog laurel and orange honeysuckle
close-ups, cliff fendlerbush flowers and Pacific red elderberry, water
smartweed and purple western monkshood. There's also an appendix of parks
and preserves, and pages full of the constellations you can see at night
with no city lights to mar the view. With a century of nature preservation
under its belt, Audubon does justice to
the field-guide genre. --Stephanie Gold - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 448 pages
Knopf; ISBN: 0679446818; (March 1999)
Plants
of the Rocky Mountains
by Linda J. Kershaw, et al
(Paperback - April 1998)
Trees
of the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West
by George A. Petrides, Olivia Petrides
(Paperback - March 2000)
Rocky
Mountain Flora : A Field Guide for the Identification of the Ferns, Conifers,
and Flowering Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains
by William Alfred Weber
(Paperback - December 1976)
Central
Rockies Wildflowers
by Mike Potter
(Paperback)
Edible
and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and Neighbouring Territories
by Terry Willard
(Paperback)
Bagging
Big Bugs : How to Identify, Collect and Display the Largest and Most Colorful
Insects of the Rocky Mountain Region
by Whitney Cranshaw, Boris Kondratieff
(Paperback - April 1995)
A
Rocky Mountain Lichen Primer
by James N. Corbridge, et al
(Paperback - July 1998)
Mushrooms
of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountains
by Vera Stucky Evenson
(Paperback - May 1997)
Scats
and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains : A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy
Wildlife Species (Scats & Tracks)
by James, C., Ph.D. Halfpenny, Todd Telander (Illustrator)
(Paperback - June 2001)
Animal
Tracks of the Rocky Mountains : Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado,
Arizona and New Mexico
by Chris Stall, Steve Whitney (Illustrator)
(Paperback - October 1990)
The
Natural West : Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
by Dan L. Flores
(Hardcover - June 2001)
Central
Rockies Mammals
by John Marriott
(Paperback)
Gardening
in the Mountain West
by Barbara Hyde
(Paperback)
The
Xeriscape Flower Gardener : A Waterwise Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region
by Jim Knopf
(Paperback - April 1991)
Grow
Native : Landscaping With Native and Apt Plants of the Rocky Mountains
by S. Huddleston, M. Hussey
(Paperback - March 1998)
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