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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches, and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down"--
"The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way. Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife,...
Author
Series
Wild rescue volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are sent to the jungles of Borneo to rescue an orangutan and save his refuge from illegal logging.
Author
Series
Publisher
Toon Books, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul Bunyan tall tales. Highlights the impact of clear-cutting old-growth forests. With contributions by Native authorsas well as historical maps, photos, and a bibliography."
"In a humorous graphic novel set in Minnesota around 1914, we see W. B. Laughead, an advertising manager for a lumber company, spin the Paul...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a "forest man" for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence and character of the great animals who hauled logs through the jungle, he became a gifted "elephant wallah". In Elephant Company, Vicki Constantine Croke chronicles Williams's growing love for elephants as the animals provide him lessons in courage, trust, and gratitude. Elephant Company is also a tale of war and daring. When...
19) Marja's skis
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Marja is finally big enough to learn to ski to school. One day she sees a friend who has fallen through the broken ice on the river. With the help of her skis, Marja save her friend.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Social activism combines with environmentalism in this picture book bio of Julia Butterfly Hill and Luna, the thousand-year-old redwood tree whose life she saved"--
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