Canada's Forests
A History
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2003
- Category
- General, Forestry
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773526617
- Publish Date
- Sep 2003
- List Price
- $21.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773526600
- Publish Date
- Sep 2003
- List Price
- $100.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773571693
- Publish Date
- Sep 2003
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Ken Drushka analyses the changes in human attitudes towards the forests, detailing the rise of the late nineteenth-century conservation movement and its subsequent decline after World War I, the interplay between industry and government in the development of policy, the adoption of sustained yield policies after World War II, and the recent adoption of sustainable forest management in response to environmental concerns. Drushka argues that, despite the centuries of use, the Canadian forest retains a good deal of its vitality and integrity. Written in accessible language and aimed at a general readership, Canada's Forests will be a must-read for anyone interested in the debate about the current and future uses of this precious natural resource.
About the author
Ken Drushka worked as a journalist before spending sixteen years as a logger, silvicultural contractor and the operator of a custom sawmill. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, including Equity, Business in Vancouver, BC Report and Truck Logger. Drushka's books include the BC bestsellers Working in the Woods and Stumped: The Forest Industry in Transistion, Against Wind and Weather, Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters and HR: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan, which won the 1996 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize. He was also co-author of Three Men and a Forester (with Ian Mahood). Drushka passed away at the age of 63 in 2004.
Other titles by
Working in the Woods
A History of Logging on the West Coast
Whistle Punks & Widow-Makers
Tales of the BC Woods
In the Bight
The BC Forest Industry Today
Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters
The History of Logging in BC's Interior
H.R.
A Biography of H.R. MacMillan
Touch Wood
BC Forests at the Crossroads
