December 15, 2000
A New CD-ROM Teaches Users to Identify 470 Kinds of Trees
Receiving a box of leaves in the mail is not unusual if you're one of the developers of Woody Plants in North America (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company), a multimedia CD-ROM tutorial for plant and tree identification. Contributors from around the country provide leaves as samples for the project's image database.
But the developers can't rely on parcel post alone to gather information on the 470 species included in the tutorial; they have to do some traveling themselves. John R. Seiler,
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