Book description
This is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, botanical plates, and extraordinarily detailed maps. Under the direction of the Central Park Conservancy, the park's landscapes have been painstakingly restored to achieve the effects envisioned…
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1 author picked Central Park Trees and Landscapes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
My copy of Central Park Trees and Landscapes is dog-eared and worn because it is the most useful of the books about the park.
This field guide is all about the trees. I Iove how thorough it is. It really does map every single tree in the park. Still better, each is marked with a number that tells you to which of the more than 200 species found there it belongs.
When I was starting out as a naturalist, I would choose an attraction at random, lean my back up against a bark, and use this book to tell me…
From Aaron's list on books about Central Park from a budding naturalist.
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