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Author Gill, Charlotte, 1971-

Title Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe / Charlotte Gill.

Publication Info. Vancouver ; Berkeley : David Suzuki Foundation : Greystone Books, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  333.75 GIL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.75 G41    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition ; first U.S. edition.
Description 247 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Contents The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages [245]-246).
Subject Tree planting -- Canada.
Tree planters (Persons) -- Canada.
Forests and forestry -- Canada.
ISBN 9781553657927: $16.95
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