Sierra Nevada - The Naturalist''s Companion, Revised Edition

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List of contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

ONE
THE WESTERN FOOTHILLS

TWO
MIDMOUNTAIN FORESTS

THREE
GIANT SEQUOIAS

FOUR
FIRE ECOLOGY

FIVE
RED FIRS AND LODGEPOLES

SIX
TREE LINE AND BEYOND

SEVEN
IN THE RAIN SHADOW

EIGHT
IMPRINTS

APPENDIX: FINDING YOUR WAY
NOTES
PRINCIPAL REFERENCES
INDEX

About the author

Verna R. Johnston, who taught biology at San Joaquin Delta College for thirty-seven years, is a natural-history writer and photographer. A Japanese edition of her most recent book, California Forests and Woodlands (California, 1994), has just been published. Her photography has appeared in numerous exhibitions, and more than 100 of her articles have been printed in Audubon, the Christian Science Monitor, Encyclopedia Britannica, the New York Times, and other publications.

Summary

Beginning with the western foothills, this book evokes a picture of the varied plant and animal life encountered as the elevation increases, tops the crest, and drops to the more precipitous, arid eastern Sierra slope. It takes the reader through chaparral and mountain meadows, pine and fir forests, granite expanses and snowy peaks.

Product details

• Authors: Verna R. Johnston, Johnston Verna R., Johnston/Simmons
• Assisted by: Verna R. Johnston (Photographer), Verna R. Johnston (Photographs), Johnston Verna R. (Photographer), Carla J. Simmons (Illustration), Simmons Carla J. (Illustration), Verna R. Johnston (Editor), Carla J. Simmons (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.12.2000
• EAN: 9780520224889
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22488-9
• No. of pages: 241
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America; USA, NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, natural history, Applied ecology, United States of America, USA, Nature and the natural world: general interest