A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

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 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.

Tom Wessels is the author of Reading the Forested Landscape (Countryman). He teaches at Antioch University New England.

$14.95 (Can. $18.50)
978-0-88150-918-2
5x7.5, 160 pages, 50 color photos