The Field Guide to the Woody Plants of the Northern Forest is a compact guide to the ecology, geography, and identification of the trees, shrubs, and wood vines of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. It 272 species, provides 80 quick guides and charts for rapid identification, and contains nearly 3,000 color drawings and photos. It is the first field guide in sixty-five years to cover the trees and shrubs of the Northern Forest Region; the first ever to include quick guides to habitats, buds, leaves, flowers, fruits, and families; and the first ever to use stacked photos and colored vector drawings throughout. A companion digital atlas with 2,200 additional images is available as a free download on the Atlas website, northernforestatlas.org. There were a few hardcore taxonomists that have been waiting a lifetime for his flora of the region, and now they have it, as beautiful as anyone could ask for. But more beautiful because it comes from someone who understands the context – the whole context – of the various parts. ― Orion This is one of the finest guides of its kind that I've seen. The identification sections for trees, shrubs, and vines are definitively detailed and illustrated. Covering an extensive geographical range and paired with exhaustive ecological information, there isn't need for another resource on the topic. -- Donald J. Leopold, SUNY ESF Jerry Jenkins directs the Northern Forest Atlas Project. He is the author of Grasses of the Northern Forest , Woody Plants of the Northern Forest , Sedges of the Northern Forest , Mosses of the Northern Forest , Climate Change in the Adirondacks , and The Adirondack Atlas and coauthor of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks .