Stikky Trees: Learn to Recognize at a Glance the 15 Most Common Trees in the United States--in Just One Hour, Guaranteed

by Laurence Holt

If you want to.Surprise your friends, Charm a date, Teach your children something new, Become an amateur botanist, Take your first steps to discovering the natural world around us.Stikky Trees uses a unique, pattern-based learning method to bring a wonderful skill to anyone with an hour to spare. We spent hundreds of hours with readers testing and refining it to be sure it will work for you.You'll learn the secret to identifying 15 common trees: ash, aspen, birch, cedar, douglas-fir, elm, fir, hemlock, hickory, maple, oak, pine, sourgum, spruce, and sweetgum. Together, these account for 80% of US trees and two of the top three trees in every state.Along the way, you'll reconnect with our ancestors who would not have gotten far without knowing the trees of the enormous forests around them.Includes a comprehensive Next Steps section with guides to the top 10 trees in your state, tree field manuals, how trees work (in six bullet points), their five biggest enemies, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2005

About the author

Laurence Holt, a serial entrepreneur and a fanatic on the science of learning, created the first Stikky books while on sabbatical in Umbria, Italy. The Stikky approach is based on how people actually learn, starting with small pieces of knowledge and systematically building on them into a comprehensive picture. In 2004, the series won the AEP's Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing. A major update and reprinting of the series began in 2023.

Reviews

[Collin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is second Stikky book I've read, and I have to say that they really have it right. Stikky's philosophy is that there is a deficit of material that both explains things simply and that uses the (now not so) new evidence that we often learn better with visual aids and always learn better with repetition. I had high expectations for this book after reading Stikky Night Skies: Learn 6 Constellations, 4 Stars, A Planet, A Galaxy, And How To Navigate At Night--in One Hour, Guaranteed, and I wasn't disappointed.

The book is essentially a guide to identifying 15 common tree types, mostly at the level of genus or family. You can probably confidently identify an oak, a maple or a birch, but can you pick you the different between a fir and a Douglas-fir? How about a pine versus a cedar? Other trees the book teaches include aspen, spruce, hickory, ash, elm, sweetgum and tupelo. I hadn't even heard of a tupelo before! So after reading this, my interested in trees has definitely been stoked. Best of all, there's a great list of tree resources at the end geared towards identifying even more common trees, all the way down to the species level. I highly recommend this and plan to put my faith in Stikky. Next up is Stikky Stock Charts: Learn The 8 Major Stock Chart Patterns Used By Professionals And How To Interpret Them To Trade Smart--in OSne Hour, Guaranteed.