National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region (National Audubon Society Field Guides)

I recently moved to Washington from Georgia and had used the Audubon Society’s Eastern region guides for my work so I knew this Western region guide would be great. Very rich color photos, identification tips, and thorough descriptions. One note is that the spine of the book (under the paper cover) reads “Eastern Region” on this copy. I can confirm that I received the correct book, and the color of the false-leather cover is for the correct one, so they must have stamped it with the wrong identifier. No biggie, but worth knowing!

My granddaughters are naturalists and I want to be authoritative when they visit so I use the Guide to show them how to find the answers they want. It is perfect.

Been to the West cost and the east cost furthest north and furthest south. places where trees are overly abundant and places where there are none at all. Of all the places I have been it is The Forest of the USA they have always held my attention So I live no less then 30 min drive from Richloam Florida"Richloam Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is one of seven large tracts of land that make up the Withlacoochee State Forest. The Richloam Tract, consisting of more than 58,000 acres, is located in Hernando, Pasco, Sumter, and Lake counties."Richloam is in the area of Ridge manor FL, this book will be an amasing piece of reference as I have seen trees from the west, and east of course. SO now my walks in those woods are going to be very fulfilling.

I am an arborist and this is the book I use to ID trees. I have both the Eastern and Western region books. If it ain't in these two book, then it's a hybrid, or non-native, or something really odd. I am a member of an arborist forum, and I can ID just about anything anyone throws out there, and am almost always right the first time. In fact, I get some right that even the old-timers and gurus get wrong. It's usually down to some small feature between two closely related varieties, but this book does a good job delineating between the varieties.

I think it was a Used book, but was in pristine condition. The content and layout exceeded expectation—high quality print & color, makes it easy to ID trees by leaf, needle, bark seed/cone and canopy shape. Did not know Audubon did field guides besides their bird books. Thanks!

This is a very comprehensive and technical book. That being said, it's not a book where you can see a tree, open a page, and find it quickly. It's a very technical book and uses the actual species names so identifying a tree for the normal everyday non-scientific person is a bit of a challenge and the pictures of the full trees are tiny black and white sketches. Not helpful! there are pages of colored photos of leaves and bark, but not of the full tree! I'm going to keep the book because it does have a lot of information, but I am looking for a more simplified book for just Northern California or at least the West Coast.

The book condition met their description and my expectations.

I give it a three star only because when I got the book it didn’t have a picture cover on it and I was surprised about that but otherwise I love the book it has a lot a helpful information on it

Comfortably sits in your hands, the pictures are plentiful and really well done. Everything is very smartly organized, easy to follow, great information. Only heads up is my hubby found the print way too small, so you may need glasses to read this. However, how else are they going to fit all that excellent information into a handy, small, packed full, travel friendly, flexible book. Oh my one take away was it was not packed in water proof packaging. Mine was delivered in the pouring rain and thrown outside my gate. Luckily I arrived home in time that the book was only slightly damp and not ruined. Not environmentally sound but should be plastic wrapped! I'll be ordering all the rest of the series.

A good range of species is represented here, although not as intensive as some other, larger guides. High quality of photographic plates you'd expect from an Audubon book. While not being the most comprehensive field guide out there, it will get the job done for the major endemic tree species and help steer you in the right direction if your subject is not presented in the book. And of course like all Audubon guides, its sturdy construction will survive the rigors of actual outdoor use. I spilt orange juice on my copy and it's fine.

Good book, purchased it after I already had one for birds and one for mushrooms. Still not able to memorize the names of most common trees and bushes, but I think this is not the books fault :)

Great product, Great Service!

Excellent information, nice size fits nicely into a backpack and so you actually use it in the field!!