Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests
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By Larry Pynn.
A co-publication with New Star Books.
2000. 6 x 9 inches. 224 pages. Map Index.
ISBN 0-87071-027-3. Paperback, $18.95.
Table of Contents
Introduction
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The remarkable Pacific temperate rainforest has become an endangered landscape, rarer than even the embattled tropical rainforest. In
Last Stands, award-winning environmental writer Larry Pynn plunges into coastal forests from California to Alaska to explore this unique ecosystem and the complex factors that threaten it.
Whether standing with new-age loggers as they toil beneath the churning blades of a heli-logging operation, witnessing the wolverine's legendary ferocity, bounding along in the back of a pickup with a couple of bear hunters, or embarking on a week-long solo hike through an uncharted wilderness, Pynn's approach to understanding North America's temperate rainforest--and the creatures and people connected to it--is as diverse and unconventional as the forest itself. The result is a fascinating book, one part impassioned travelogue and one part natural history.
Cathedral, cash crop, the Earth's respiratory system: the rainforest is all this and more. The incalculable wealth and magnificence of these last stands spring forth in this savvy, down-to-earth chronicle.
"Larry Pynn writes with a naturalist's eye, a reporter's ear, and an environmentalists heart. Anyone who cares about the fate of our Pacific coast should take a journey with Pynn through Last Stands."
Ian Gill, president of EcoTrust and author of
Hiking on the Edge: West Coast Trail and Juan de Fuca Trail
About the Author
Larry Pynn is the award-winning environmental reporter for the
Vancouver Sun and the author of
The Forgotten Trail: One Man's Adventures on the Canadian Route to the Klondike (Doubleday). He lives in Tsawwassen, British Columbia
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