Pacific Coast Tree Finder: Identifying Trees of the Pacific Coast

Identify native trees of the Pacific Coast—from southwestern Canada to northwestern Mexico—with this pocket-size guide.

You can appreciate and enjoy beautiful native trees, plus some widely planted non-native trees, of the Pacific Coast! If you’re curious about the trees that you see, then the Pacific Coast Tree Finder by Tom Watts is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use booklet, you can identify trees in the coastal regions of western North America.

The book provides a dichotomous key to identifying trees. Simply answer a series of simple questions about the location, appearance, branches, needles/leaves, and more. Along the way, Tom’s professional illustrations help to guide you to a positive identification.

This guide is applicable to the coastal regions of California, Oregon, and Washington, as well as southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Baja California.

Book Features:

• Step-by-step guide to tree identification
• More than 100 species of trees
• Professional line illustrations with key markings for identification
• Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

Tom Watts was an author and an illustrator. He and his family are credited with creating the Nature Study Guides series of field guides. The concept began with Tom’s mother, May Theilgaard Watts, a naturalist in Berkeley, California, who created student handouts in the 1930s. Those handouts evolved into pocket guides, and some 30 years later, Tom turned them into a business venture. The publishing company known as the Nature Study Guild was born. Tom contributed text and illustrations to several of the guides, including Flower Finder and Tree Finder. Tom passed away in 1992, but his book series remains popular, helping hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and Canada learn about and connect with nature.