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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 917.88690434 EAN: 9780811729192 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0811729192 Label: Stackpole Books Manufacturer: Stackpole Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2001-01 Publisher: Stackpole Books Studio: Stackpole Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Book Description: The ecosystems within Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado-from natural meadows to alpine plant communities-support a wide variety of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, and plants. This new addition to the Visitor's Companion series describes and illustrates in full color dozens of these plants and animal species. It also explores the park's geological history, land-use issues, native people, and past explorers-at once a traveler's guide, field guide, and natural history of one of America's most extraordinary national parks. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A visitor center in your pocketMost of this book consists of the kind of things that you see in a national park visitor center, such as brief texts on geology, habitats, history, and climate. In a book format, Wuerthner can go into a little more detail, and he does. Even so, most of the book doesn't dig very deep in providing this kind of information. Having read quite a bit about the park and visited on several occasions, I didn't really learn much. If you're planning your first visit, however, this would be a good ... Read More 
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