Fern Finder: Identifying Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern North America (Revised) (Nature Study Guides)

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Easily Identify the Ferns You Find!

Enjoy learning to identify ferns with this guide from authors Anne Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of ferns in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike or a walk in the woods.

Features:

  • Provides information to help you identify native ferns that grow in the United States Midwest and Northeast, as well as eastern Canada
  • Uses a dichotomous key, like other plant guides in the Nature Study Guides Finders series
  • Leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices, culminating in the identification of the species
  • Includes a large number of illustrations with line drawings


Table of Contents:

How to Use This Book

Parts of a Fern

To Identify a Fern

The Life Cycle of a Fern

Symbols

Begin Here (Identification Guide)

Index


Anne C. Hallowell (B.S. biology, M.S. science education) is a naturalist and educator. She was an instructor with the National Audubon Society and Quebec-Labrador Foundation, taught elementary science, edited educational publications for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and directed a Schoolyard Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project on native prairies in Minnesota. She is active in environmental sustainability and education projects.

Barbara G. Hallowell (B.S. biology) was a life-long nature educator, inspiring students in many settings from elementary schools to community colleges. She was instrumental in her town's first Earth Day celebration, founded its conservation commission, developed nature trails, established a botany club, taught classes for National Wildlife Federation summits, and wrote Cabin: A Mountain Adventure and Mountain Year: A Southern Appalachian Nature Notebook. A skilled photographer, she used her pictures for over 50 years in public lectures on nature topics and outdoor travel.

Adventure Publications

Pub Date:  January 01, 1981

0.21" H x 5.56" L x 4.1" W

64 pages

paperback

 

out of print