What Tree Is That?

What Tree Is That?"One of the best pocket sized tree identification manuals."Steve Nix, About. com A Step by step approach A Full color botanical illustrations A Identify common trees in your region or North America A Great for everyone from young students to professional arborists The Arbor Day Foundation's What Tree Is That? is a unique field guide that uses a step by step approach to identify common trees of the United States and Canada. The fully illustrated, 164

"One of the best pocket-sized tree identification manuals."—Steve Nix, About.com

 A Step by step approach

A Full color botanical illustrations

A Identify common trees in your region or North America

A Great for everyone from young students to professional arborists

The Arbor Day Foundation's What Tree Is That? is a unique field guide that uses a step-by-step approach to identify common trees of the United States and Canada. The fully illustrated, 164-page book helps readers recognize more than 250 varieties based on trunk bark, leaf margins and textures, pods, nuts, and the arrangement of leaves on twigs.
Focusing on specific characteristics, this easy-to-use field guide poses a series of questions paired with botanical illustrations to help classify the tree in question. Created by the world's largest nonprofit devoted to trees and the environment, this guide offers a proven classification method for people of all ages—from youth to adult, amateur to professional.
The guide is a practical educational tool containing both the common and scientific names of trees and measurements in both inches and centimeters. Equipped with a durable, water-resistant cover, this conveniently-sized guide slips easily into a pocket for easy reference on hikes.