"Fire and Avian Ecology in North America - Studies in Avian Biology Number 30" edited by Victoria A. Saab and Hugh D.W. Powell [book review]

which have existed but sometimes passed us by. I enjoyed reading about present and past giant trees and was entertained different times looking for interesting facts and diagrams. It is not a book to be read at one sitting, even though short, because the tree species stand alone and reading several is like reading a list which can go on too long. A short reading of one or two tree descriptions at each visit is sufficient with another few minutes reading the next descriptions at another time. Soon the book becomes a reference for tree species and musings of how much we have missed and what we might visit. I have shown it to my students and they spent time with it as a picture and description book to browse and marvel. Al Carder has given us a little gem of knowledge and history for entertainment based on good science and research.