Hardy Californians - a Woman's Life with Native Plants Tahoe Hiking The new edition of the

The new edition of the book that Roger Tory Peterson called a "landmark" integrates an array of carefully selected photographs

Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry—how growers

The book then looks in depth at hundreds of plants

The Cascade Mountains of Northern California

western extent of the Desolation Wilderness

Hardy Californians - a Woman's Life with Native Plants Tahoe Hiking The new edition of theLester G. E. Rowntree (1879 1979), free spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains, deserts, and forests. Through hundreds of magazine and journal articles, two acclaimed books, and uncounted public lectures, Rowntree shared her vast knowledge of California native plants and at the same time argued passionately for the protection of