I think that the authors writing style compliments the content and intent of the book perfectly. Rarely do i enjoy reading a book as much as i have enjoyed this one.
Expertise defies interest in this case. The author has several inaccuracies, which makes the book useless for someone who knows about trees. I prefer passion and poetry when it comes to trees.
Their straw-man characterizations of standard frequentist statistics and null hypothesis approaches are not useful.