Redwoods

Redwoods
Author: Jeremy Joan Hewes
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1995-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

A Guide to the Sequoia Groves of California

A Guide to the Sequoia Groves of California
Author: Dwight Willard
Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Calaveras Big Trees State Park (Calif.)
ISBN: 9780939666812

This comprehensive guide is the first to focus on all the giant sequoia groves in the state of California, not just those that are well-known. The author has identified sixty-seven different groups of these forest giants, and has organized them into five different geographic areas from north of the Kings River to south of the Tule River watershed. Extensive information is provided for each grove including general description and managing agency; historical facts; size, condition, and overall quality; access; and notable trees.

California's Giant Trees

California's Giant Trees
Author: Harriett E. Weaver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 111
Release: 1969
Genre: Coast redwood
ISBN:

A supplementary social science textbook introducing the history, ecology, uses, and need for conservation of the redwood and sequoia trees of California.

Discovering Sierra Trees

Discovering Sierra Trees
Author: Stephen F. Arno
Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1973
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Profiles thirty-six species of trees in the Sierra Nevada including: description, age, size, characteristics, reproduction, and historical highlights.

Giants in the Earth

Giants in the Earth
Author: Peter Johnstone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781890771232

The coast redwoods and the giant sequoias of California have inspired an extraordinary body of writing. In Giants in the Earth, the carefully chosen words of storytellers, philosophers, poets, and journalists present an eloquent and engaging record of human history in the redwoods. --Heyday Books.

Trees in Paradise

Trees in Paradise
Author: Jared Farmer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393078027

Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.

Travels with Baby

Travels with Baby
Author: Shelly Rivoli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2014
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780983122722

Winner of a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, the Gold Prize from the North American Travel Journalists Association, and a Silver in the National Parenting Publications Awards competition for parenting Resources. Travels with Baby, by celebrated family travel author and blogger Shelly Rivoli, helps parents plan every trip they'll take with their child from birth through 4 years. In addition to the major modes of transport covered in great detail--air travel (50 pgs.), travels by automobile (40 pgs.), cruise vacations (31 pgs.), rail travel (53 pgs. Including USA, Canada & Europe)--this "Ultimate Guide" also includes advice for traveling with children of different temperaments, health and safety considerations, suggestions for where to travel when during a child's first years, packing lists and travel-friendly baby gear recommendations, and more. As the Society for American Travel Writers Foundation declared, this guide is "...a must have even for families who only travel occasionally."