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Big Lonely Doug - The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees (Paperback)
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Big Lonely Doug - The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 400
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In the tradition of John Vaillant's modern classic The Golden
Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest
and oldest trees in Canada. On a cool morning in the winter of
2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of
old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came
across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey
building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a
ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words "Leave Tree." The forest
was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon
known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of
environmental activists and their fight to protect the region's
dwindling old-growth forests. Originally featured as a long-form
article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award
(Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests,
the legend of the West Coast's big trees, the turbulence of the
logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention
surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and
the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a
logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.
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