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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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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Publisher Comments The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $32.00 New - 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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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin Publisher Comments Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element" -- as it exists in nature, in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 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 $42.50 Your price: $27.50 New - 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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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: $8.21 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Wildfire, P by Alianor True Publisher Comments During the summer of 2000, Americans from coast to coast witnessed the worst fire season in recorded history. Daily news reports brought dramatic images of vast swaths of land going up in smoke, from the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, to the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods by Mary Stuever Publisher Comments When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - 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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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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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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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: $17.50 Sale - 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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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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