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Canopy of Titans : The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest

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Trees are crucial in preserving a liveable future. Canopy of Titans makes an eloquent plea for saving one of North America's last great forests.
-- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History


In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests.


Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, Koberstein and Applegate pull back the curtain on policies of governmental bodies that have seriously diminished the rainforest's capacity to store carbon, and uncover industry practices that have led to the destruction of swaths of a major ecological resource. Additionally, using an environmental justice perspective, Canopy of Titans shines a light on the Indigenous communities that have lived in the rainforest for millennia, and the impact forest policies have had on their lives.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781682193457
  • ISBN-10: 1682193454
  • Publisher: OR Books
  • Publish Date: August 2023
  • Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
  • Page Count: 354

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