Hey,

I recommend Audubon's Eastern Trees field guide, or the
Petersons
field guides. They are excellent, but the problem comes when
you are looking
at a young tree but the book has a picture of a fully mature
tree. I have
learned a lot from simply studying field guides. Hope I helped
some!


For winter (bare) Tree and shrub ID the Audubon book is better
than Peterson's. It shows bark. There is a pair of books (whose
titles TOTALLY escape me) that show photos of twigs, bud scars,
etc.. They are large (10x11 at LEAST!). One deals with shrubs
and the other with trees. B&N has carried them locally; I've not
seen them at other book stores (and come to think of it I haven't
seen them at all, lately, so maybe they're OUP.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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