Book recommendation on Tree identification

Bruce Hoadley’s books are pretty good.

-- http://amherstcabinets.com - also a marketing consultant with expertise in direct response marketing for woodworking and online business building

Hello Brian;
—-there is a real good bit of advice over at this site, if you’ll promise to come back here after you’ve bookmarked the site….lets just hope you don’t get lost over there.

Over Wintering Trees - An Aid to Indentify trees by twigs and buds

...and here’s why you may get lost in the forest of trees….

Tree and Plant I.D.” and having said all that, please don’t think I’m being smart in my next answer.

Sometimes it’s best to forget the books…grab a camera….put your feet in motion….and get outside, away from books and computers and start learning about trees by touching the bark and taking some pictures and feeling trees. Find some foresters and ax men and start asking some questions from those who work with trees. And most of all remember….that wherever one lives….there are trees, sometimes one just has to slow down to read the trees!

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Brian, why not try the botanical gardens web sites.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks for all the tips. I have found quite a bit of info in the last few days. Still trying to narrow a particular species of immediate interest. A friend just bought a house, and the previous owner planted some trees between his walkway and the neighbor’s fence, probably not realizing how bit these trees would get. My friend asked me to take them down before they cause any more damage. I have a few guesses, but I am not certain: “Sugar Gum”, “Cedar Gum”, or “Poplar Gum”. Not a whole lot of information on eucalyptus/gum trees, perhaps because they (mostly?) are imported.

-- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, who will cut it up into bowl blanks?

Brian

I have a blog which is about tree identification and a little while ago wrote about western trees, there is an audubon book you may find useful.

http://treeleafidentification.blogspot.com/2007/10/tree-leaf-identification-western-region.html