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a new field guide to the south Coast Salish camas prairie plants

a new field guide to the south Coast Salish camas prairie plants

I have some good news. Since its publication in 2016, roughly 1,000 copies of Vascular Plants of the South Sound Prairies have sold, a remarkably large number for a book printed by a very small press. In 2026, a new field guide to the south 

putting plants in historical context

putting plants in historical context

My first book, The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood (2015) examines the complex history of cultural, sociopolitical, and economic factors affecting people’s radically different perceptions of this common hardwood tree.