Giant Trees of Western America and the World.Giant Trees of Western America and the World Al Carder Harbour Publishing PO Box 219, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2HO, Canada 1550173634, $26.95 www.harbourpublishing.com Al Carder spent sixty years as a plant biologist but never forgot the ancient Douglas fir Douglas fir: see pine. Douglas fir Any of about six species of coniferous evergreen timber trees (see conifer) that make up the genus Pseudotsuga, in the pine family, native to western North America and eastern Asia. forests which enthralled en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. him as a child: when he retired he set out to find the trees, only to discover many had been felled by loggers or storms. GIANT TREES OF WESTERN AMERICA AND THE WORLD is his attempt to document those which remain and provides a catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of the West's big trees of all species, from BC's 400- plus foot Lynn Valley Lynn Valley is a neighbourhood of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Located at the northern edge of Greater Vancouver, it is nestled between the forested slopes of Mt. Fromme, Lynn Peak and Mt. Seymour. fir to the massive redwoods of California. Some are thousands of years old and over 300 feet high: the author's scale drawings accompany discussions of observation history and plant biology. A 'must' for any who would discover the history and nature of the West's last stands of big trees. |
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