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The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
epub |eng | 2008-07-25 | Author:John Vaillant

DESPITE HIS PROPENSITY for envelope-pushing, Hadwin was injured badly in the bush only once—when the pawl on a jack he was using slipped under load, causing the handle to flip ...
( Category: Trees July 26,2014 )
Mother of God by Paul Rosolie
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Paul Rosolie

12 The Beached-Whale Paradox Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER I once made a decision so ludicrously ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry June 26,2014 )
Creating a Forest Garden by Crawford Martin
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Crawford, Martin [Crawford, Martin]

Deciduous/Evergreen: E Zone: 8 Sun/shade preference: Shade tolerance: Performance rating: Fertility: SF This is the true Mediterranean myrtle – unrelated to the bayberries / wax myrtles, Myrica spp. Size: 0.6-2m ...
( Category: Organic April 4,2014 )
The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:Colin Tudge

Finally, the ten species of Nyssa are mostly ornamental but include the tupelo, N. aquatica and N. sylvatica, trees big enough to provide North Americans with railway sleepers. (Once Nyssa ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 27,2014 )
The Pencil by Henry Petroski
epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Henry Petroski [Petroski, Henry]

Two ways of shaping triangular pencils from leaded slats, showing the practical way to be wasteful of wood (photo credit 14.1) While machines might be efficient for making pencils, during ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 26,2014 )
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Philip Connors

3 June Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Henry Petroski

Two ways of shaping triangular pencils from leaded slats, showing the practical way to be wasteful of wood (photo credit 14.1) While machines might be efficient for making pencils, during ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
Young Men and Fire by Maclean Norman
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )

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