num_pages: 160
description: Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape . 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 keya fascinating series of either/or questionsto guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. Youll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same. 50 color photographs
language: English
title: Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape
publisher: Countryman Press