By the author of Scorched, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002.
This book takes on the challenge of balancing local economies, wood products, and biodiversity by proposing diverse new approaches to forest management using new research from the moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. --
Forests for the People tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of ...
Learn about the energy pyramid that explains the numbers of forest plants and animals. Learn about threats to these lively forests and how they thrive and survive in this Spanish-translated text!
What can you find in a forest?
Describes the plants, animals, people, and climate that are a part of the ecosystem in a deciduous forest, and explains what threatens this biome.
Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation.
A collection of writings on the environmental crisis of the Southwestern forests, by historians specializing in either the environment or the Southwest, criticicing forest management practices devoted to exploiting the forest for timber, ...
Looks at the important ecological role of forests, describes current deforestation trends, and suggests conservation measures This book nails down the crucial connections between the forests' survival and the survival of the cultures and ...
The School Book of Forestry
This book represents an important step in bringing together the most current scientific information about this vital ecosystem.