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Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
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- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Responsibility
- Charlotte Gill
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Abstract
- A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest. Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, 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 tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. Eating Dirt also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, which grow from tiny seeds into one of the world's largest organisms, our slowest-growing ""renewable"" resource. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees. (From publisher's website)
- 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.
- Notes
- Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
- ISBN
- 9781553657927
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Finding the line - conventional wisdome warns that a warming climate has the potential to push treeline upslope, ultimately edging the alpine zone off the mountaintop. Recent studies, however, give a more hopeful picture. Is the alpine zone more resilient than once thought?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25146
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Malotky, Birch
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Malotky, Birch
- Responsibility
- Birch Malotky
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.56 - 61
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Trees
- Abstract
- Pertains to the repercussions of climate change on treelines in alpine zones.
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Wohlleeben, Peter
- Billinghurst, Jane
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
- Call Number
- 04.1 W81t
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- Responsibility
- Peter Wohlleeben (author)
- Jane Billinghurst (translator)
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xv, 272 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist, by Dr.Suzanne Simard (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a commodity -- Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.
- ISBN
- 9781771642484
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 04.1 W81t
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Imagine! the story of five needle pines
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24997
- Author
- Rudy, Michael
- Physical Description
- p. 20 - 25
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Five Needle Pines found in Alberta - the Whitebark and Limber Pines which are vital in their ecosystem and are both suffering from a non-native species of fungus "rust".
- Notes
- In Nature Alberta, vol.49, no.3 (Fall 2019)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Nature Alberta publications website
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Plight of the Whitebark Pine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19818
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Los, Fraser
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Los, Fraser
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.22-23
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collaborative project with Parks Canada as part of a country-wide Conservation and and Restoration program to create white pine blister rust resistant Whitebark Pines to replant in their natural ranges in Glacier National Park and Mount Revelstoke National Park.
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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