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  • Woodland Management

    A Practical Guide - Second Edition

    by Chris Starr ...
    Now in full colour, this is the second edition of this highly acclaimed book. Woodland Management is essential reading for anyone with an interest in trees and woodlands, whether they simply enjoy walking in the woods, are considering buying woodland, or wish to gain a greater understanding of the history and management of Britain's woodland. The book begins with a look at how our woodlands have ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

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  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • FIRE CREW: Stories from the Fireline

    by Ben Walters ...
    Every year, thousands of young men and women think they would like a job as a wildland firefighter. And every year, tens of thousands of them do it — they fight the summer battles of wildfire on the forests and grasslands of the West. Some die. Some have the times of their lives. And many forge lifelong friendships and collect the memories of a lifetime. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chainsaw Operator's Manual

    Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-cutting Techniques

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate horizontal, vertical and boring cuts, as well as trimming and cross-cutting techniques.Safety considerations are discussed, including workplace safety, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • George Perkins Marsh

    Prophet of Conservation

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal’s earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh’s ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Community Forestry in Canada

    Lessons from Policy and Practice

    Edited by Sara Teitelbaum ...
    In recent decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives are lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done to document their tangible outcomes or draw connections between their ideals of local control, community benefit, ecological stewardship, and economic diversification and the realities ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Toxic Archipelago

    A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Project Vesta: Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forest

    Fuel Structure, Fuel Dynamics and Fire Behaviour

    Edited by JS Gould, WL McCaw, NP Cheney, PF Ellis, IK Knight, AL Sullivan ...
    Project Vesta was a comprehensive research project to investigate the behaviour and spread of high-intensity bushfires in dry eucalypt forests with different fuel ages and understorey vegetation structures. The project was designed to quantify age-related changes in fuel attributes and fire behaviour in dry eucalypt forests typical of southern Australia. The four main scientific aims of Project ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • A History Of Irish Forestry

    by Eoin Neeson ...
    This comprehensive study, with a foreword by Lord Killanin, looks at Irish forestry from the migration of the first wood species some 10,000 years ago to the present day. Part One, The Historical Background, examines the primeval forest and early settlers, woodlands, land title and tenure under the Celts, codified with Brehon law; Norman forest law imposed in the early medieval period; the Tudor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges

    Understanding and Perspectives from Forest Research

    by Rainer Matyssek, N Clarke, P. Cudlin, T.N. Mikkelsen, J-P. Tuovinen, E. Paoletti, G Wieser ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Environmental Science
    There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment. It reconciles process-oriented research, long-term monitoring and applied modeling through comprehensive forest ecosystem research. Furthermore, ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Silviculture in the Tropics

    Edited by Sven Günter, Michael Weber, Bernd Stimm, Reinhard Mosandl ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book integrates the latest global developments in forestry science and practice and their relevance for the sustainable management of tropical forests. The influence of social dimensions on the development of silvicultural concepts is another spotlight. Ecology and silvicultural options form all tropical continents, and forest formations from dry to moist forests and from lowland to mountain ... Read more

    $341.09 USD

  • Growing Plantation Forests

    by P. W. West ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other uses. Almost as large an area of plantation forests is being established annually to replace ... Read more

    $80.99 USD