Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

By Tom Wessels

Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down?

Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key--a fascinating series of either/or questions--to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You'll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881509183
• ISBN13: 9780881509182
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.4"