Research Catalog

Title

My Life with trees : a Sylvan Journey / Gary L. Saunders.

Author

Saunders, Gary L.

Publication

Kentville, Nova Scotia : Gaspereau Press Limited, 2015.

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Description

252 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Born in northeast Newfoundland to a family with deep roots in forestry, trapping, and guiding, Gary Saunders' love of the natural world developed early and stayed with him throughout his life. Originally trained as a boots-on-the-ground forester, Saunders' passion for painting and writing led him to also study the fine arts and to take a job writing and editing for the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests, producing newsletters and educational material for the general public. Later, as a freelance writer, his illustrated articles about trees and rural living would become a regular feature for over three decades in several regional magazines. At heart, this book is an unconventional memoir. While organized by tree species like a reference book, Saunders' essays actually impart equal parts natural and personal history. And like the best sylvan essayists of earlier generations (Thoreau, Leopold), Saunders draws greater truths about our relationship with nature-and with each other-out of what on first glance might appear to be recitals of botanical facts or yarns about adventures past. A close reading of this book promises not only to expand one's understanding of the ecology of the forest, but also to offer a rich, evocative model for how we might better live our lives with trees.

Subject

• Saunders, Gary L
• Foresters > Canada > Biography
• Trees > Canada > Identification
• Forest ecology > Canada

Genre/Form

• travel guidebooks.
• Guidebooks
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Field guides
• Autobiographies.
• Guides touristiques.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- The conifers. Arborvitae -- Eastern white pine -- Red pine -- Jack pine -- Tamarack -- Balsam fir -- Red spruce -- White spruce -- Black spruce -- Eastern hemlock -- The broadleafs. Sugar maple -- Red maple -- White ash -- Black ash -- Sumac -- Northern red oak -- American beech -- White birch -- Yellow birch -- Ironwood -- Balsam poplar -- Trembling aspen -- White elm -- Black cherry & friends -- Mixedwood. The Tao of blowdown -- Hezekiah & the pine -- Alder music -- Woodpile wealth -- The American chestnut in Nova Scotia -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9781554471515
• 1554471516

OCLC

• 921574024
• SCSB-12655078

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library