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Author Preston, Richard, 1954-

Title The wild trees : a story of passion and daring / Richard Preston.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2007]
©2007

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  585.5 PRESTON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  585.5097 PRESTON    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  585 PRESTON, RICHARD c.3  Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  585 PRESTON, RICHARD c.2  Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  585 PRESTON, RICHARD    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  585 PRESTON, RICHARD c.4  Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  585.5 P    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  585 PRE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  585 PRESTON    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  585.5097 PRE    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Vertical Eden -- Fall of Telperion -- Opening of the Labyrinth -- Love in Zeus -- Into the deep canopy -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.
Summary Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees. 96% of the ancient redwood forests have been logged, but the fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. Writer Preston unfolds the story of the daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems, sometimes hollowed out by fire. Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life unknown to science.--From publisher description.
Subject Coast redwood -- California, Northern.
Coast redwood -- Ecology -- California, Northern.
Forest canopies -- California, Northern.
Forest conservation -- California, Northern.
Tree climbing -- California, Northern -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 1400064899
9781400064892
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