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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 
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by John R Luoma Publisher Comments The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Duncan Poore Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280).... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathie Durbin Synopsis The high-prorofile campaign to preserve the Northwest's ancient forests.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe P Mattey Publisher Comments This is a book about bubble prices, and their consequences, in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest from 1979-1984. Bubble prices--unusual and rapid rises (and eventual drops) in the prices of a commodity--have been of theoretical interest to... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $21.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen G Boyce Book News Annotation A textbook for an introductory or continuing education course in the conservation and use of natural resources. Suggests methods by which forest managers can help landowners and consumers identify and further their common goals during a period when... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Herbert Kaufman Publisher Comments It is the rare book that remains in print for nearly fifty years, earning wide acclaim as a classic. The Forest Ranger has been essential reading for generations of professionals and scholars in forestry, public administration, and organizational... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments 'One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin asked how a rain forest could contain so many species: "What explains the riot?" The same question occupies the scientists who toil on Panama's Barro Colorado Island today. Tropical and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sebastian Junger Synopsis From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone and a deadly canyon fire in Idaho to guerilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this thriller will take you where you wouldn't dream of going on your own.... (read more) Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Ring Binder) check for new and sale copies
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