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A singular guide to mushrooms on mountain tops

Little-known and hard to find, the tiny mushrooms that grow above the treeline offer mycophiles rare opportunities--but also index the advance of global climate change. Cathy L. Cripps's comprehensive nature guide draws on the twenty-five years of collecting and research that have made her North America's foremost expert on alpine fungi.

Features include:

• More than 200 color photographs
• Small size-perfect for use in the field
• In-depth scientific information on 150 species, including some recently discovered and most not found outside alpine or Arctic habitats
• Division of species into ecological groups to aid with searching and identification
• Coverage of the Rocky Mountains of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, with extensions into British Columbia and Alaska, with many of the same mushrooms also found in the Arctic
• Tips on collecting for both professional researchers and amateur enthusiasts

A conservation-based approach aimed at the general public, mycologists, researchers, naturalists, land managers, and others Easy to use and charged with cutting-edge science, Alpine Mushrooms of North America is an expert guide to mycology's final frontier.