Timberline: Mountain and Arctic Forest Frontiers - Softcover

Stephen F. Arno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898860857 ISBN 13: 9780898860856

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 1984

Synopsis

Timberline—where the trees end—is a biological boundary visible throughout North America to even the casual traveler. Where highways or hiking trails ascend to upper timberlines (ranging from below 2000-foot elevations in Alaska to over 11,000 feet in California), visitors see patchy forest and meadows giving way to stunted trees and finally to mere shrub-like trees and tundra.

This book describes what timberlines are and why they exist, and what human uses have been made of the timberline environment. It surveys tree species and conditions of individual North American timberlines——in the Pacific Coast, Great Basin, Southwest, and Mexican mountains; in the Rockies and Northern Appalachians; and in the Arctic—with reference to timberlines worldwide.

About this title

About the Author:

STEPHEN ARNO grew up on the shores of Puget Sound and later worked summers as a ranger and naturalist in the Olympic and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. In 1970 he began a career as a forest ecologist with the USDA Forest Service. His recent books are Flames in Our Forest; Disaster or Renewal and Restoring Fire-Prone Forest in the West.

RAMONA HAMMERLY is a native of Puget Sound. She illustrated Northwest Trees (1977) and Timberline (1984), and has worked primarily in watercolor, pen and ink, etching, and oils. She shows her art in various galleries throughout the Northwest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0898860857
• ISBN 13: 9780898860856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Illustrator: Ramona P. Hammerly