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Peppers: From Sweet to Heat

The health benefits of peppers, both sweet and hot, are widely known. They’re packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory properties, and they’re low in calories. And then, there’s the varieties of flavors—from the sweet to the heat!

This guide is an easy-to-use visual reference to a wide variety of peppers and includes a handy introduction to the Scoville Scale to show you where each pepper ranks of the scale of sweet and mild to hot, hotter, and hottest. There’s also Information on when to harvest the ripened fruit, and suggestions on how the fruit is commonly used in the kitchen.

Whether you’re a gardener looking for purely ornamental plants, a backyard farmer looking to plant and harvest for the table, or the chef shopping for the perfect spicy note for tonight’s dinner keep this handy, folding, laminated guide in your shopping bag for your next trip to the garden center, the produce aisle or your farmer’s market.

ISBN: 978-1-943334-57-5

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Wildflowers of Southern California

Wildflowers of Southern California: People exploring nature in Southern California can use this handy photographic field guide to identify common native wildflower species.

The flowers in the guide are grouped by color to make identification as easy as possible, and the accompanying text indicates size, bloom period, and other characteristics of each plant. The guide’s six double-sided panels fold up into a packet narrow enough to fit in a back pocket yet sturdy enough to stand up under repeated use. Lamination has also made the guide waterproof.

The plants identified in Southern California Wildflowers grow in a large area that includes the valleys, coastal mountains, and coastal plains of Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Orange and Ventura Counties and many other nearby places.

ISBN: 978-1-936913-80-0

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Steven Hartman

Steve Hartman has been member of the California Native Plant Society since 1974, served on the CNPS State Board of Directors as Treasurer for over a decade, and was honored as a CNPS Fellow.

Steve is a long-time activist of the Los Angeles / Santa Monica Mountains chapter having served as chapter president, treasurer, newsletter editor, web-master, and plant sale co-chair.

His local project is the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area (www.sepulvedabasinwildlife.org), in the San Fernando Valley, where he has guided revegetation projects and has encouraged the City of Los Angeles to develop large-scale native landscaping projects.

He served on the Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert District Advisory Council for five years representing CNPS.

He is also the treasurer of the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, Inc., in Sun Valley (www.theodorepayne.org). Steve is a multimedia producer and has produced a series of iPhone wildflower field guides (www.hartmanmultimedia.com).

Steve leads natural history hikes and gives presentations about native gardening, desert flora, and conservation. For fun, Steve plays music and drums for the rock and roll band “The Screaming Clams.”

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Wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay Area

People exploring nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area can use this handy photographic field guide to identify annual and perennial (non-shrubby) native wildflower species.

The plants identified in Wildflowers of the Bay Area grow in a large region that includes the valleys, mountains, and coastal plains of 10 counties including San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Marin.

ISBN: 978-1-936913-63-3

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Steven Hartman

Steve Hartman has been member of the California Native Plant Society since 1974, served on the CNPS State Board of Directors as Treasurer for over a decade, and was honored as a CNPS Fellow.

Steve is a long-time activist of the Los Angeles / Santa Monica Mountains chapter having served as chapter president, treasurer, newsletter editor, web-master, and plant sale co-chair.

He served on the Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert District Advisory Council for five years representing CNPS.

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Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada

People exploring nature in the Sierra Nevada Mountains can use this handy photographic field guide to identify common native wildflower and shrub species.

The plants identified in Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada grow in a large area that extends from Kern County to Plumas County, and includes Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Parks.

Use this guide in the Eldorado, Lake Tahoe, Plumas, Sequoia, Sierra, and Stanislaus National Forests, as well as Calaveras Big Trees, Washoe Meadows, and Plumas-Eureka State Parks.

ISBN: 978-1-936913-64-0

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Steven Hartman

Steve Hartman has been member of the California Native Plant Society since 1974, served on the CNPS State Board of Directors as Treasurer for over a decade, and was honored as a CNPS Fellow.

Steve is a long-time activist of the Los Angeles / Santa Monica Mountains chapter having served as chapter president, treasurer, newsletter editor, web-master, and plant sale co-chair.

He served on the Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert District Advisory Council for five years representing CNPS.

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Reptiles & Amphibians of Sonoran Desert

Reptiles and Amphibians of the Sonoran Desert: A guide to 41 of the most commonly encountered reptiles and amphibians native to the Sonoran Desert region of the southwestern United States. Some of the area’s more rare and interesting species have been included to underscore the biological importance of this interesting and diverse biome.

The most current taxonomic and common names are used in this guide to assist the enthusiast in keeping abreast with the many changes in this dynamic field. This guide covers the following National Parks, Monuments, Wildlife Refuges, and State Parks; Joshua Tree, Organ Pipe Cactus, Saguaro, Sonoran Desert, Ironwood, Coachella Valley, Cabeza Prieta, Kofa, Anza-Borrego, Boyce Thompson Arboretum, South Mountain, in addition to many wilderness and other protected areas.

Full color photographs accompany descriptions that focus on important characters will help inexperienced and seasoned outdoors people to identify the animal. Species are grouped by similarity to each other which aides in quick comparisons of one animal to another.

Accompanying the photograph is information on distribution, behavior, diet, and size of each species.

ISBN: 978-1-936913-68-8

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Randall Babb

Randy Babb is a biologist and an Arizona native. He is currently employed by Arizona Game and Fish Department.

He has worked on numerous studies and projects in Arizona, New Mexico, southeastern U.S., Mexico, Central America, Vietnam, and southern Africa on small mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

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