Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels books about chocolate and the earth that grows

and the earth that grows them

pious know-it-all

and features Arthur Rackham's masterly illustrations

of leafy branches

this is the way to write a conservation book

Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels books about chocolate and the earth that growsThousands 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