Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

1
How to Recognize California's Conifers
2
Redwood Forests
3
North Coastal Forests
4
Douglas-Fir/Mixed-Evergreen Forests
5
Closed-Cone Pines and Cypresses
6
Foothill Woodland
7
Midrnountain Forests (Mixed Conifers)
8
Giant Sequoia Groves
9
Red Firs and Lodgepole Pines
10
Subalpine Forests
11
Pinyon Pine-Juniper Woodland
12
The Klamath Region
13
Battle Lines

SELECTED REFERENCES
INDEX

About the Author

Verna R. Johnston's work has appeared in Audubon, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times, as well as in two earlier books. She taught biology at San Joaquin Delta College for thirty-seven years and now lives in the midmountain forests of the Sierra Nevada. Carla J. Simmons is a freelance artist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviews

"Verna Johnson's delightful book is a concise, colorful, reader-friendly overview of the major forest and woodland ecosystems of California. Her thirteen chapters cover the entire state from the humid, complex, species-rich Klamath Mountains to the semi-arid pinyon-juniper woodlands at the upper edge of interior deserts and to the stark genetic homogeneity of Torrey pine groves on maritime southern California bluffs."
*Journal of Biogeography*