Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest
changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested
Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past?
Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that
brought trees down?
Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history
of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable
field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing
forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key--a fascinating
series of either/or questions--to guide you through the process of
analyzing what you see. You'll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No
walk in the woods will ever be the same.