A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests

Peterson Field Guides #51

by John C. Kricher

This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. It includes 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, beetles, and other insects.

Genres: Science

374 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 1999

About the author

John C. Kricher, Professor of Biology, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Drew Newnam]

Nicely delineates and describes the different climate zones. Good overview.

[Art · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference and info book. It is about the ecology of our western forests - how the various plant and animal species interact. It also has quite a lot of detailed information about the species themselves. Such as that the possible reason that the chickadee tail feathers are white and flash while flying so that fellow flock members can follow easier keeping the flock together better. Brilliant !

- introduced to me by Keith