William R. van Dersal
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 416
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Excerpt from Native Woody Plants of the United States: Their Erosion-Control and Wildlife Values Since the initial appearance of this work in preliminary mimeographed form in 1936, a great many people have contributed original information and suggestions without which the present publication would be much less complete. To all of these people, the author wishes to express his sincere thanks. He is particularly indebted to Ernest G. Holt for his advice, suggestions, and criticism, as well as his very considerable assistance during the preparation of the manuscript; to T. H. Kearney, for permission to use his manuscript on the flora of Arizona; to V. L. Cory and H. B. Parks for the use of their manuscript catalog of the Texas flora, and Mr. Parks' manuscript on the useful properties of Texas plants; to F. L. Mulford for the plant-growth region map, together with his chapter on its development; to C. W. Thornthwaite for the map of the climatic regions; to Clarence Cottam and his assistants, Phoebe Knappen, F. M. Uhler, Neil Hotchkiss, and A. L. Nelson, for their very great help in making available considerable data from the Section of Food Habits Research of the Bureau of Biological Survey; to E. P. Killip for advice on the taxonomic problems; to E. L. Crandall for his help with some of the photographs and to C. R. Ball, who assisted materially in the preparation of the section on Salix. Suggestions and criticisms concerning the botanical material have been offered by E. J. Alexander, M. L. Fernald, E. J. Palmer, H. M. Raup, H. A. Gleason, W. H. Camp, H. E. McMinn, F. J. Crider, C. V. Morton, M. Van Rensselaer, E. H. Graham, Mildred Mathias, H. L. Shantz, E. V. Komarek, Hilda Cunniff, Fred Gibson, and his assistant, J. Whitehead, H. S. Yates, M. G. Netting, P. B. Sears, H. L. Whitaker, C. F. Swingle, and Russell Albright. Suggestions and criticisms concerning the wildlife material were received from W. L. McAtee, H. L. Stoddard, Aldo Leopold, D. M. Gorsuch, F. N. Hamerstrom, Jr., C. B. Terrell, R. T. King, Gardiner Bump, R. O. Stevens, A. M. Pearson, Logan Bennett, P. D. Dalke, V. E. Davison, N. W. Hosley, W. E. C. Todd, R. E. Yeatter, and H. D. Ruhl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.