by John Vaillant  Publisher Comments As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Adrian Forsyth Review Scientific AmericanIn 17 chapters, each a brief essay on tropical nature observed, these two young field biologists have made a model of contemporary natural history, cheerfully speculative, concerned as much with large pattern as with diversity... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John N. Maclean Publisher Comments A riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath, from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them The Thirtymile fire in the remote North Cascade range near the... (read more) Your Price $25.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Ralph W. Andrews Synopsis The day would come when the Pacific Northwest's "Big Woods" would be only a fog-blurred memory. With the superb work of timber photographer Darius Kinsey, comprising more than 200 views, the author dramatically recalls lumbering's great days.... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Robert G Lee Synopsis "Communities and Forests offers a timely view of the changing face of forests and forestry in North America today. In examining interactions between people and forests, the book shows that forests are as much a social institution as they are a biological... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Chris Maser Synopsis In this classic work of ecology, Chris Maser traces the growth of an ancient forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains from its fiery birth in the year 987 to the present. A unique "biography" of an ecosystem, Forest Primeval portrays a diverse fabric of... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Julia Butterfl Hill 
Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Bruce M Beehler Publisher Comments Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the unfamiliar smells, and the spectacular sights of a tropical rainforest without ever visiting one. But this exhilarating and honest book comes wondrously close to taking the reader on... (read more) Your Price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by John Maclean
Publisher Comments When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Pynn Synopsis An award-winning environmental reporter plunges into coastal rainforests from California to Alaska to explore this unique ecosystem and the complex factors that threaten it.... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Margaret D Lowman Synopsis A field biologist writes about different canopy access techniques in conjunction with the scientific hypotheses she was addressing while using each one. 30 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Douglas Gantenbein Publisher Comments On July 10, 2001, in northern Washington state, a rain of burning embers trapped two civilians and thirteen firefighters in a steeply walled canyon. With a roar heard thirty miles away, flames and black smoke swept overhead-leaving four firefighters dead.... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Rocky Barker Publisher Comments In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jane Dirks Edmunds Synopsis This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast Range forest that is selectively logged and finally clear-cut.... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Erich Krauss Publisher Comments A dramatic, front-line look at the most devastating fire siege in California history With over seven miles of urban/wildland interface unburned for 30 years and laced with homes in and out of hilly terrain, Rancho Cucamonga was a powder keg, one that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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Read an original essay by Simon Winchester and save 30% on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
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