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The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods
The Forest for the Trees How Humans Shaped the North Woods
Author: Jeff Forester
"This is a book that can and should be embraced by conservationists, members of the timber industry, backpackers, hunters, and anyone who has hiked through a stand of timber, looked up through the sun-streaked canopy, and felt a giddy, primeval sense of wonder that only a still-wild forest can provoke." — --David Weddle, author of Among the Ma...  more »

From early settlers and industrialists seeking wealth to modern visitors valuing tranquility, the region known today as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has a fascinationg ecological hsitory. Jeff Forester shows how the global story of logging, forestry, conservation, and resource management unfolded in northern Minnesota.
ISBN-13: 9780873516501
ISBN-10: 0873516508
Publication Date: 5/15/2009
Pages: 232
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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