Research Catalog

Title

Last stands : a journey through North America's vanishing ancient rainforests / Larry Pynn.

Author

Pynn, Larry.

Publication

Corvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

xi, 212 pages : map; 23 cm

Summary

• "The remarkable Pacific temperate rainforest has become an endangered landscape, rarer than even the embattled tropical rainforest. In Last Stands, 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, bouncing 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Old growth forests > Northwest Coast of North America
• Old growth forest ecology > Northwest Coast of North America

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Seabirds on the Edge: The Sunshine Coast's Marbled Murrelets -- 2. Written in the Wood: The Western Red Cedars of Cascadia -- 3. Winter of the Devil Bear: Wolverines of the Columbia Mountains -- 4. The Cruelest Cut: The Tlingits of Southeast Alaska -- 5. Through the Eyes of the Nitinat Chief: Logging British Columbia's Central Coast -- 6. The Land of Bleeding Giants: California's Redwoods -- 7. Bear Country: Fight at the Top of the Food Chain -- 8. The Secret World of Mushrooms: Oregon's Mushroom Mafia -- 9. The Interior Rainforest: Seven Days Solo in the Granby Wilderness -- 10. On Your Knees for Alaska Man: Prince of Wales Island's Limestone Caves -- 11. The Sky Loggers: Harvesting by Helicopter -- 12. The Salmon Forest: Death and Rebirth on Chichagof Island.

ISBN

0870710273

OCLC

• 43724992
• SCSB-3861403

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries