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Books on all aspects of sustainable forestry and protecting forests and forest ecosystems. Specific topics include protecting old growth temperate rainforests, protecting tropical rainforests, sustainable logging practices, sustainable wood and lumber certification, threats to forest ecosystems and strategies to protect those ecosystems, forest restoration, reforestation, and tree planting, sustainable paper products, paper and wood recycling, wood as a biofuel, and urban forestry.

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The Redesigned Forest. By Chris Maser. Explains the natural design of a forest, and how science and technology have tried to change that design by replanting with monocultures, short lifespan recutting, and through the use of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. A challenge to the way in which the forest lands of northwest North America are managed, and a call to arms for fundamental reform of our policy toward old-growth forests. Offers alternatives to our current practices, realistic and practical approaches that would allow for sustained forest use. More... | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Forest Certification in Sustainable Development: Healing the Landscape. By Chris Maser. Highlights the history, importance, and rewards of forest certification. Discusses the issues involved in mainstream forestry as it is currently practiced, and what can be done to create sustainable forestry. For example, Home Depot has committed to giving preference to selling "certified wood" proven to come from forests that meet certain sustainablility standards. Retailers and vendors can offer wood certified through the international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and FSC accredited organizations. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization. By John Perlin. Offers a comprehensive history of the contributions that wood has made to the growth of civilization - as fuel, material for houses, ships and wagons, as support for digging mines and as molds for crafting other materials. Also covers the effects of deforestation on the development of civilization. Describes the deforestation of Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, the West Indies, and the United States by kings, warlords, and robber barons. More... | John Perlin EcoSpeakers Info >>

Trees & Forests of America. By Tim Palmer. An unprecedented collection of 200 stunning photographs with text celebrating the exquisite beauty of nature and explaining why trees and forests are important to all life. In this remarkable volume of unaltered photos, it is easy to get lost in sunbeams shining through green canopies or in the sky-reaching rise of the largest living organisms on earth. Palmer captures the beauty of America from one coast to the other as he treks, skis, and paddles across the country. More… | Tim Palmer EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. Lead photographer Daniel Dancer. From air and ground, the 35 photographers whose vivid work is gathered here document the devastation clear-cut forestry has caused across Canada and the U.S. This volume doesn't just show the destruction of clearcutting but offers solutions. More… | Daniel Dancer EcoSpeakers Info >>

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest. By Chris Maser. Describes a single forest and its many dwellers, from flying squirrels to fungi, from massive Douglas fir trees to tiny tree-eating mites. Builds a strong case for conservation. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Forest Products and Wood Science: An Introduction. By Jim L. Bowyer et al. Provides a comprehensive overview of the anatomical and physical nature of wood and the relationship of these characteristics to its use as an industrial raw material. Includes updated research findings and expanded discussions that reflect the changing face of the forest products industry. More… | Jim L. Bowyer EcoSpeakers Info >>

Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest: Exploring the Heart of Central Africa. By Francesca Lyman. Follows a team of scientists, artists, and filmmakers as they search for the elusive lowland gorilla, rare birds, leopards, a universe of insects, not to mention the powerful elephants for whom the forest is named. More... | Francesca Lyman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California. By Tim Palmer. An evocative portrait of the whole Sierra Nevada range. Guides us into ancient green forests suffused with life. Reveals the Sierra in a way that has never been done before. Features 140 color photos and eight essays that inform and inspire about the intricate workings of nature and also the conflicts inherent in the booming growth of the nation s most populous state. More… | Tim Palmer EcoSpeakers Info >>

Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. By Jim Motavalli. Joseph Knowles was a ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped nearly naked into the woods to live off the land. From 1913 to 1916, his dispatches to the world - alternating accounts of bear clubbing and quiet contemplation, written in charcoal on pieces of birch bark - set off major newspaper wars, exploiting readers' fears of modernization. Did Knowles really survive for months at a time in the untamed wilderness? Part adventure story, part cultural investigation, Naked in the Woods reveals a new dimension of our natural history. More… | Jim Motavalli EcoSpeakers Info >>

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function. By Chris Maser and James Trappe. An introduction to the world of mycorrhizal fungi in forests and their importance in food webs as highlighted by truffles. This book should encourage readers to investigate further the intricate and essential interactions occurring in forests. A clear and compelling argument that there's much more to forests than meets the eye. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

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