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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wilderness & the American Mind 4TH Edition by Roderick Frazi Nash Publisher Comments A fourth edition of Nash's classic study is now available with a new Preface and Epilogue in which the author explores the future of wilderness and reflects on its ethical and biocentric relevance.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Growth in a New World: A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined by Thomas Spies Synopsis Old growth forests represent a lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These iconic notions have actively altered the way society relates to old growth forests, catalyzing major changes... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trees & Forests of America by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments Trees & Forests of America is an unprecedented collection of 200 stunning photographs by award-winning author Tim Palmer. Along with breath-taking images, his expressive text celebrates the exquisite beauty of nature and explains why trees and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences by David Lindenmayer Publisher Comments Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as a wildfire or hurricane—is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra by Jordan Fisher Smith Publisher Comments Nature Noir is the intensely original story — part Edward Abbey, part James Ellroy — of Jordan Fisher Smith's fourteen years as a park ranger on forty-eight miles of Sierra Nevada river canyons. The gorgeous government-owned land along the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest by Chris Maser Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests by Larry Pynn Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Steward's Fork: A Sustainable Future for the Klamath Mountains by James Agee Synopsis A compelling story of place, "Steward's Fork "explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains--a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $26.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Roadless Rules: The Struggle for the Last Wild Forests by Tom Turner Publisher Comments Roadless Rules is a fast-paced and insightful look at one of the most important, wide-ranging, and controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in the United States. In January 2000, President Clinton submitted to the Federal Register... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America 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 $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The last stand :the war between Wall Street and Main Street over California's ancient redwoods by David Harris Publisher Comments By chronicling the takeover of Pacific Lumber Company--which had been operated by one family since 1904 before being sold to a Texas-based conglomerate--Harris gives readers a metaphor for the disappearance of a gentler, kinder capitalism. The Last Stand... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation (Agriculture and Rural Development) by World Bank Publisher Comments The 'Forests Source Book' provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development. Intended to guide World Bank lending activities and projects, the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests by Linda Underhill Publisher Comments In The Way of the Woods, Linda Underhill explores some of our nationas most important forests, from the magnificent old-growth groves of Cook Forest in Western Pennsylvania to the endangered hemlock forests of the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science by Terry Daniel Publisher Comments Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for future catastrophic fires. Forest settings are a magnet for recreational opportunities and for rapidly growing residential development&mdash... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Enduring Forests: Northern California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Southeast Alaska by Ruth Kirk Synopsis The landscapes and ecosystems of the ancient forests are brought to life through full-color photographs and the text of five regional authors in this large-format tribute. Published by The Mountaineers Foundation.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.88 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forest of Central and South America 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw by Ana Maria Spagna Publisher Comments Now Go Home tells the story of how a quintessential California girl ended up earning her living in the Pacific Northwest with a crosscut saw. Ana Maria Spagna came of age in southern California in the "hot-pink eighties." By the time she turned nineteen,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments Royte weaves together her own adventures on Panama's fertile and animal filled Barro Colorado with tales of researchers struggling to parse the intricate workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the planet.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, an Abridgment by Michael Williams Publisher Comments “Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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