The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey through Pacific Coast Tidepools by Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld, Robert T. Paine
Book Description:
as can be seen by the book cover, the reader will love the vivid images of intertidal life. A perfect opportunity to enjoy learning about the beautiful creatures normally out of sight.
Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast by Eugene N. Kosloff
Book Review:
Though published in the early 1980s, this book does a wonderful job of introducing the active naturalist to the nearshore marine life of the Pacific Northwest. This book includes good illustrations and photographs, descriptions of where marine flora and fauna live and what they do there. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to go the seashore of the Pacific Northwest and figure out what they are looking at. Kozloff has been there and seen everything he's writing about.
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
Book Review:
--"This is the best of the books of this genre that I've seen. Well organized, great pictures, great explanations and descriptions, often interesting additional comments, and completeness."
--"Names native tribes of the Northwest and describes how they used each plant, and presents most entries with either color photographs or drawings, covering everything from large trees down to grasses, sedges, lichens and mosses. The habitat and geographic subregion of each species is given."
Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest by Elizabeth L. Horn, Kathleen Ort
Book Review:
"This is a great book for the novice botanist. As a person who just recently started trying to identify wildflowers in the Monterey area, I found this book a great guide. I already have a couple of other books, including the ones from the Audubon Society and from the California Native Plant Society, but this one is so simple and covers most of the flowers you commonly see. It's easy to flip through, the pictures are clear and in color, and it certainly doesn't overwhelm you with technical jargon. I was only sorry it doesn't include some of the smaller/tinier flowers I see around. Maybe in the next edition. A great gift!"
Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey by Brenda Peterson, Linda Hogan
Book Review:
"This splendid book is aptly named, for the powerful glimpses in these chapters, full of emotion and drama, carry the resonance and significance of a sighting of the heart-shaped breath plume and knuckled back of one of the largest, gentlest, and most enigmatic creatures on the planet."
Pacific Coast Inshore Fishes by Daniel W. Gotshall
Book Review:
Now in a newly updated, revised and expanded fourth edition, Daniel Gotshall's Pacific Coast Inshore Fishes continues to be the premier guide in its field. This fourth edition is enhanced with forty-four new species along with a great many new photographs. Included are family descriptions which previous editions did not have. Each species descriptions include up-to-date information on sizes and geographic ranges.
Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Gar Goodson
Book Review:
As a volunteer for the new Long Beach (CA) Aquarium of the Pacific, I needed to quickly learn about fishes of the Pacific coast and how to identify them. This book exactly suits my needs. It is interesting and informative, without being too technical. The color illustrations are beautiful. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn more about Pacific coast fishes.
A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes by Howard E. Hamman
Book Review:
This is a well-written, well-organized field guide, like all other Peterson Field Guides. The book is divided into five parts: 1. About This Book, a very brief introduction of the book; 2. Collectin and Observing Fishes, again, a brief chapter, but very useful. The next three chapters are divided into: 3. Jawless Fishes; 4. Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras and 5. Bony fishes, which is where the bulk of the book is about. The book also contained an excellent glossary, and a limited number of references.
Birds of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Nancy Baron
Book Review: "I am just a beginner birdwatcher and this book was so easy for me to locate the different birds I saw. Very informative-Good drawings and a great price. I just love this book. Being from the Pacific Northwest I didn't want to look through the books that displayed all North American birds. It would take me forever to find the bird I saw and I would forget most of the time what the features were."
The Sea Otter by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, Robert Silverstein
Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coast to the High Cascades by Chris Maser
Book Review: "If you live in the Pacific Northwest and want to identify the wild mammals you see, this book is very helpful. However, there is a lot more to the book than just good descriptions of mammals. Stories about each creature bring to life the animals you may never encounter. Chris Maser is clearly fond of his subjects and tries hard to help the reader get a feel for their lives. It is fun to just open this book at random and read a few pages about vole or bat you never knew existed. I have several mammal identification books. This is the best one."
