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Author:
Gill, Charlotte, 1971-
Title:
Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe / Charlotte Gill.
Publisher:
Greystone Books,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
247 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Tree planting--Canada.
Tree planters (Persons)--Canada.
Tree planters (Persons)--Canada--Biography.
Gill, Charlotte,--1971-
Forests and forestry--Canada.
Arbres--Plantation--Canada.
Planteurs d'arbres--Canada.
Planteurs d'arbres--Canada--Biographies.
Gill, Charlotte,--1971-
Foresterie--Canada.
Other Authors:
David Suzuki Foundation.
Notes:
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation. Includes bibliographical references: p. [245]-247.
Contents:
The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
Summary:
Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
ISBN:
1553657926
9781553657927
1553659775 (bound)
9781553659778 (bound)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)743390470
Locations:
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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