Identifying Ferns the Easy Way: A Pocket Guide to Common Ferns of the Northeast - Softcover

Since 1978, Lynn Levine has been an environmental educator, naturalist, and a consulting forester to private landowners. She was the first woman consulting forester in the Northeast. Throughout her career, she has been passionate about protecting the integrity of the forest. Lynn has worked with children and adults in classrooms and libraries and she has taken thousands of people into the forest to share her love of nature, and to spur others to feel the same. In addition to her beautiful new field guide, Identifying Ferns the Easy Way, Levine is the author of Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Pocket Guide, Snow Secrets and Is It Time, Yet? She is also co-author of Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life Size-Tracking Guide and Working with Your Woodland: A Landowner's Guide.

"Identifying Ferns the Easy Way offers a wonderful way for people to become acquainted with our common regional ferns. A simple, yet effective key and great illustrations make this a very user-friendly field guide." --Tom Wessels, ecologist and author of Reading the Forested Landscape, etc.

"Gardeners, hikers, and naturalists all need this elegantly simple guide to the common fern species of the Northeast. The lineage of these plants is ancient, their charms immutable. These pages bring their identities into the light, a gift indeed." --Roger B. Swain, Host, PBS-TV's The Victory Garden

"Identifying Ferns the Easy Way holds its promise--it takes a complex group of plants and helps the user navigate the extraordinary diversity of these species with simple, visual methods. It is an excellent teaching tool for the common ferns found on the northeastern landscape. --Arthur Haines, research botanist for New England Wild Flower Society and author of Flora Novae Angliae