If You Can Only Pick One
Northwest Trees
Arno & Hammerly's classic does what no other guide manages: it identifies every native tree in the region and tells you why each one matters. Species accounts that read like natural history essays. The book you take to the trailhead and then can't put down when you get home.
Find your Guide
Pick the line that sounds like you. The first book is where to start; the second is where to go when you want more.
On the Trail
Northwest Trees
Arno & Hammerly's classic does what no other guide manages: it identifies every native tree in the region and tells you why each one matters. Species accounts that read like natural history essays. The book you take to the trailhead and then can't put down when you get home.
In the Yard
PNW Conifers
Getting Started
Two ways in

First-Timer Pack
Mac's NW Trees + NW Know-How: Trees
One for the trail, one for the kitchen table. You'll be naming trees by the weekend.

Nature Reader Pack
The Hidden Life of Trees + The Golden Spruce
How forests think, and the true story of a sacred tree and the man who destroyed it. You'll never walk through woods the same way.
More Field Guides
Beyond the Field Guide
41 books in this guide, in 6 shelves.
Forest Ecology & Science 5 books
Walking the Woods 5 books
Northwest Timber History 5 books
Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods
Loggers' own stories. The bestseller of this shelf.
Tree Lit & Philosophy 6 books
The Olympic Peninsula Shelf 4 books
For Young & New Readers 3 books
Trees: An Illustrated Field Guide
Small, illustrated, for visual learners of any age.
At Port Book & NewsWe sell these because we use them. Ask us what we'd bring to your specific trail.
These are the ones we reach for most often — the shelf keeps going. Ethnobotany, fire ecology, that book about the German forester — just ask. That's what we're here for.