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Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land
by Robert G Lee  Publisher Comments "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...
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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...
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Deforesting the Earth : From Prehistory To Global Crisis (03 Edition)
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...
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It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops
by Margaret D Lowman Publisher Comments Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, Edward and James Burgess. This book recounts their family adventures in remote...
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Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by Nancy Langston Publisher Comments Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much...
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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...
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Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living Books)
by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-179) and index....
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The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age
by Gail Wells Synopsis The fate of ancient forests has been debated for decades in the Pacific West. In The Tillamook, Gail Wells takes up the question of younger forests, exploring the creation of a managed forest and what its story reveals about the historic and future role...
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant 
Powells.com Staff Pick Set in the vast wilderness of British Columbia, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed encompasses suspense, history, and mythology in equal parts. It is also the saga of the loss of a sacred, beautiful, and botanically unique Sitka...
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfl Hill
Publisher Comments A young woman named Julia Butterfly Hill climbed a 200-foot 1,000 year-old redwood in December 1997. She didn't come down for 738 days. The tree, dubbed Luna, was ready to be cut by a corporation and Hill's action was part of an Earth First! devised tree...
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Sociology of the Sciences #42: Population Genetics of Forest Trees
by W T Adams Publisher Comments This volume contains 19 invited papers from the International Symposium on POPULATION Genetics of Forest Trees which was held in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, July 31-August 2, 1990. The papers summarize and review the contributions of biochemical genetic...
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Forests: A Naturalist's Guide to Woodland Trees
by Laurence Walker Synopsis First published in 1990, Forests explores the ecological, economic, and human influences on over thirty significant types of woodlands. Laurence Walker focuses especially on the effects of site factors--climate, physiography, biology, and soils--upon the...
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Wall of Flame: The Heroic Battle to Save Southern California
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...
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The Northern Forest
by David Dobbs Publisher Comments Dobbs and Ober closely focus on the lives of Northern Forest residents -- a mill worker, a forester, several loggers, a fishing guide, and a Christmas tree-farming family -- and discover an extraordinary sense of place that arises in those who have a...
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Identification of the Northern European Woods
by Jon G. Hather Publisher Comments This book is a guide to the identification of trees and larger shrub species of Northern Europe based on anatomical characters.The book includes notes on anatomy and methods of sampling and identification, an atlas of 52 identifiable taxa, and summary...
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Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest
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....
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Forests of Hope: Stories of Regeneration
by Christian Kulchli Publisher Comments A book of inspiring beauty that tells of a unique odyssey around the world in search of positive tales of forest restoration "An extremely readable book with a hopeful message that deserves to reach a wide audience" -- Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, Word Wide...
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Overall Market Analyses, Sustainable Forestry Within an Industry Context (Business of Sustainable Forestry; Analyses and Case Studies)
by Tony Lent Publisher Comments The forest products industry ranks as one of the world's most important industries ;for the global economy and the environment. It represents close to 3% of the world's gross economic output. The forests upon which it depends are among the most critical...
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Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests: Public Values in Canada and the United States
by Bruce Shindler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-350) and index....
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Sustainable Forestry: From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science
by K. M. Reynolds Et Al Publisher Comments In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing...
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