A garden of bristlecones : tales of change in the Great Basin / Michael P. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Michael P., 1944-

Series:

Environmental Arts and Humanities Series

Environmental arts and humanities series

Environmental arts and humanities series A garden of bristlecones

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Basin bristlecone pine.

Great Basin bristlecone pine--History.

Forest ecology--Great Basin.

Forest ecology.

Natural history--Great Basin.

Natural history.

Great Basin bristlecone pine--History--Great Basin.

Great Basin bristlecone pine--Great Basin.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 308 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.), maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An engaging, well-illustrated natural and cultural history of the oldest living organism--the bristlecone pine.Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for the elaborate record their rings contain.

Contents:

Introduction: A Book of Changes

1. Somewhere Between Colorado and California

2. The Calculus of Change

3. The Purloined Tree

4. Capturing a Cloud: On the Stability and Movement of Bristlecone Forests

5. The Upper Edge

6. Recovering the Forest

7. How Bristlecones Came to the Great Basin

8. Figures of a Tree

9. An Aesthetic of Bristlecones

10. The Trees in Town

11. The Trees Just Out of Town

12. Walks in Woods

Afterword: Ron and Charlie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-301) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-87417-387-6

OCLC:

1520914376