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Come on over to Big Spoon Cove and meet some of my neighbours. In this humble village we’ll meet two cantankerous old men, an ecology professor, forest researcher, biologist, forest technologist; even a hermit monk, along with my grandchildren. Together we’ll have bull sessions ranging from climate change, forest management, to saw milling by discussions, at times heated, occurring in various settings. Let’s head on over and meet these opinionated folks.
Come on over to Big Spoon Cove and meet some of my neighbours. In this humble village we’ll meet two cantankerous old men, an ecology professor, forest researcher, biologist, forest technologist; even a hermit monk, along with my grandchildren. Together we’ll have bull sessions ranging from climate change, forest management, to saw milling by discussions, at times heated, occurring in various settings. Let’s head on over and meet these opinionated folks.
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Veteran journalist Jim Lotz tells the history of how the forests of the province have been both ravaged and occasionally preserved over the centuries. It begins with the Mi'kmaq people who relied on the woods for game and useful products. Green Horizons then traces the history of the forests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the ethic of "cut and run" ran rampant, destroying huge numbers of trees as did massive forest fires. The story moves on to the time of saw millers who "took the best and left the rest." In the first decade of the twentieth century, concern arose among those in the forest industries that the province would run out of wood to sustain them. The first scientif...
Containing more than 48000 titles, of which approximately 4000 have a 2001 imprint, the author and title index is extensively cross-referenced. It offers a complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing the names and ISBN prefixes, as well as the street, e-mail and web addresses.
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