The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
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With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and additional tiny animals. The guide is designed for quick and simple use in the meadow. Color tabs and a unique system of keys and organization help in the quick identification of the living things encountered along the trail, while Laws s illustrations capture the feeling of plants and animals with detail critical for their classification.
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This is an incredible book on the Sierra Nevada, written and illustrated entirely by Jack Laws, a fantastic naturalist.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t give a lot of 5-star reviews, but this book is fantastic. Laws’ line art is much clearer than the color photos you’ll see in more cheaply produced books. This book is clearly a labor of like by a name who has spent a lifetime in the Sierra; who else will tell you that the leaves of western Labrador tea “smell like toilet bowl cleaner?” I particularly like the way Laws has organized the key to the flowering plants; it’s much more usable than keys written for professional botanists, but doesn’t dumb things down so much as to be useless.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
At first I thought I didn’t need this meadow guide, but quickly realized it’s worth. My spouse and I were cutting wood and stacking it behind the barn when we lifted a tarp and saw a large brown and light yellow snake. We didn’t know what kind it was so I got the Sierra Nevada meadow quide and was able to quickly find a picture of the non-threatening California Kingsnake. Since we have rattle snakes in our area, we were pleased to see the Kingsnake in our yard. The book is very user friendly, it uses color codes and pictures to help you go to the right page and find your information.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Seems like it covers absolutley everything possible in the Sierra Nevada. We live in Sonora, which is in the foothills and we now can look up all he critters and plants that we’ve been wondering about for years. This book so far has not missed anything. I highly reccommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best meadow guide I have ever encountered. Its very sensible organization was a very pleasant surprise. For example, in most guides, to find a purple flower, one would have to look through a number of taxonomic plant groups to find the plant in question. In Laws’ guide, one need only flip to the ‘purple flower’ section. Organizing the guide by the most obvious qualities of the flora and fauna makes it rediculously simple for a layman to quickly and adroitly use the guide. It has brilliant illustrations with captions pointing out both the most obvious spotting features and the more minor features that reliably distinguish species or subspecies. With this book in hand any idiot can identify anything they should encounter on the trail.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5