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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, And Life With The Treeplanting Tribe (David Suzuki Institute),Used
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Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian NonFiction Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor NonFiction Award'Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time.'Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book CompanyDuring Charlotte Gills 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of treeplanting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems. Among other topics, she also touches on the boomandbust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised
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