Amy Lou Jenkins, author of EVERY NATURAL FACT: FIVE SEASONS OF OPEN-AIR PARENTING, explores the dichotomy of modern life and a desire to live lightly on the land.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Book review: 'Forests for the People'
Forests for the People: The Story of Americas Eastern National Forests
rn National Forests, by Christopher Johnson and David Govatski, Island Press, 2013, 324 pages.
History is full of heroes and villains. Johnson and Govatski have meticulously researched the story of how the eastern national forests suffered when insatiable lumbering and devastating fires overwhelmed the forests east of the 100th meridian. A forest conservation movement led to the passage of the Weeks Act of 1911, which was essential to saving what remained.
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