The Trees Around You is available for pre-order!!!

My new tree identification guide is officially up for pre-order now! If you have ever wondered what that tree is outside your door, or down your street, or at your favorite pub, this book is for you! Here are the stats:

  • Covers over 350 different species that commonly grow in our cities and towns.

  • No guess work: if it doesn't grow here, it’s not included. But that tree that’s growing outside your window? Oh yeah, I got it covered.

  • Over 1,400 photos taken by me!! (How’d they let me get away with that?)

  • Lists of species by noticeable traits, like fruit color or type; bark patterns; and flowering color or time, to make identifying a tree as easy as spotting some unique trait.

  • Easy to use quick ID guides to figure out confusing species quickly, including maples, oaks, pines, false cedars, larches, dogwoods, elms, lindens, cherries, and dozens more.

  • Plenty of taxonomic rabbit holes just for the love of the game; I simply can’t just leave a curiosity unexplored.

  • For all levels! Whether you’re new to trees, new to the PNW, or you’ve been looking at them here for decades, there’s something here for you. It’s designed to be approachable and functional, yet exhaustive and meticulous.

    Find it anywhere you’d like. Any pre-order helps, and I just can’t thank you enough!

Mountaineer Press (straight from my publisher)

Bookshop.org (gives to local bookstores if you don’t have one)

Amazon (feed the algorithm)

Target (apparently it’s here too?)

I’m Casey Clapp, an arborist, author, and educator based out of Portland, Ore, where I grew up.

Over the years I’ve worked as a professional arborist, city forester, and arborist consultant throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 2020 I shifted my focus to exploring the wider world of trees and started the science comedy podcast Completely Arbortrary with my good friend Alex Crowson, and we’ve been putting out a new episode about trees and other related topics each week ever since.

Most recently, I wrote a tree identification guide for the common trees in and around our cities and towns here in the Pacific Northwest called The Trees Around You. It was by far the biggest and most ambitious project I’ve even undertaken, but boy do I think you’ll like it.

I’m always looking for collaborations, partnerships, and projects to work on, and I love to tell stories about the trees around us. I’ve got a few big projects that I’m gearing up for now, so keep an eye out and keep in touch, I’d love to take you along with me.

Your support is the only way I can do what I do. So, come along with me, get in touch, and let’s see where we can go.

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Bona Fides

Professional Stuff

Education Stuff

Master of Science Degree in Environmental Conservation (2014), focused in Forest Resources and Arboriculture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; thesis focused on benefits and uses of conifers in the urban landscape

Bachelor of Science Degree (2012)

  • Bachelor of Science in Forest Management, Oregon State University, 2009-12; individualized focus in Urban Forestry and Arboriculture; graduated with Cum Laude honors

  • Studied Forest Management on exchange at North Carolina State University, fall 2010

  • Studied Forest Resource Management on exchange at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, spring 2011

  • Studied Landscape Architecture and Theatre at the University of Oregon, 2007-09

Publications