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Article: Alpine flora of the Rocky mountains v1: the middle Rockies.
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- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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THE ALPINE FLORA OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, VOLUME 1, THE MIDDLE ROCKIES. By RICHARD W. SCOTT, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1995. ix + 901 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., index, appendices. Hardbound. US$110.00.
As subjects become better known but more complex, books often cover smaller slices of a subject. The Alpine Flora of the Middle Rockies by R. W. Scott is no exception. Its large format, length, and coverage of only alpine areas of Wyoming and mountain ranges in adjacent Utah, Idaho, and Montana would at first appear to give it limited use. This, however, is not the case, for most species of the southern Rockies (Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico) and ...