TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Richard
AU  - Preston,Richard
TI  - THE WILD TREES: a story of passion and daring 
SN  - 9780812975598
AV  - SD397.R3 P74 2008
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2008///, ℗♭2007
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Coast redwood
KW  - California, Northern
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Forest canopies
KW  - Forest conservation
KW  - Tree climbing
KW  - Anecdotes
N1  - Preview on Richard Preston's new book "Panic in level 4" included; Vertical Eden -- Fall of Telperion -- Opening of the Labyrinth -- Love in Zeus -- Into the deep canopy -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments
N2  - 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
ER  -