How Trees Die: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Forests

by Jeff Gillman

Book Overview

Lessons About Our Environment from the World's Oldest Living Things
Trees have been essential to the success of human beings, providing food, shelter, warmth, transportation, and products (consider the paper you are holding). Trees are also necessary for a healthy atmosphere, literally connecting the earth with the sky. Once in wild abundance-- the entire eastern North America was a gigantic forest--they have receded as we have clearcut...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594160813
• ISBN13: 9781594160813
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.3"