Rocky Mountain Tree Finder: Identifying Trees of the Rocky Mountains

Identify native trees of the Rocky Mountain regions of southwestern Canada and the western United States with this pocket-size guide.

You can appreciate and enjoy beautiful native trees of the Rocky Mountains! If you're curious about the trees that you see, then the Rocky Mountain Tree Finder by Tom Watts and Bridget Watts is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use booklet, you can identify trees in the Rocky Mountain regions of western North America.

The book provides a dichotomous key to identifying native trees. Simply answer a series of simple questions about the location, appearance, branches, needles/leaves, and more. Along the way, Tom's professional illustrations help to guide you to a positive identification.

This guide is applicable to the mountain regions of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as Alberta and British Columbia.

Book Features:

• Step-by-step guide to tree identification


• More than 90 species of trees


• Professional line illustrations with key markings for identification


• Small format that fits into a pocket or pack

Tom Watts was an author and an illustrator. He and his family are credited with creating the Nature Study Guides series of field guides. The concept began with Tom's mother, May Theilgaard Watts, a naturalist in Berkeley, California, who created student handouts in the 1930s. Those handouts evolved into pocket guides, and some 30 years later, Tom turned them into a business venture. The publishing company known as the Nature Study Guild was born. Tom contributed text and illustrations to several of the guides, including Flower Finder and Tree Finder. Tom passed away in 1992, but his book series remains popular, helping hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and Canada learn about and connect with nature.

Bridget Watts is the coauthor of the Rocky Mountain Tree Finder. She was the publisher of the Nature Study Guild for more than 20 years, managing the Watts family publishing company until it was sold to AdventureKEEN in 2014.