Finding the Forest [Hardcover]

Peter P. Bundy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1999

Finding the Forest is a series of vignetes that offer a different vision of the forest. This vision challenges many of today's assumptions about trees, preservation and forestry practices.

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Review

Everyone who loves trees knows what a beating they take--from fire, from animals, from ice and storms, and most of all from people, but Peter Bundy is story teller and hope giver as well as forestry expert. This is no soft retirement philosophy about a harmonious nature. Bundy doesn't deny the "cruel streak" in nature, where every kind of species, including trees, compete with neighbors for light and nourishment. Old trees compete for light against their own young. Fires that devastate one kind of growth are a breath of hope to another because a powerful enemy has been burnt up. And European and Asian history is a long story of humankind overharvesting forests until they are gone. -- Carol Bly

About the Author

Peter Bundy is a certified forester who works with private landowners on stewardship plans, reforestation, harvesting, and habitat restoration projects. He has a Master's Degree in forestry and has conducted oak regeneration research for the University of Minnesota. He currently owns and operates his own private consulting firm in northern Minnesota.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 157 pages
• Publisher: Adventure Publications(MN) (June 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967194008
• ISBN-13: 978-0967194004
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,117,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Private Woodland Owners That Like Forests, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Finding the Forest (Paperback)

Peter's stories reflect a personal evolution of thought about forests and forestry. The episodic events are weaved into a colorful anthology of tales that are easy reading but can be deeply thought provoking. There's a solid base of practical stewardship philosophy that many forest owners would do well to consider. Lessons that have been learned and shared demonstrate a balance between people and nature that is more down-to-earth and applicable than most "nature-writers." The experiences delightfully illustrate a love of forest management tempered by the realities of natural processes. In this age of frequent conflict over natural resource issues, often single-use issues, this book offers a well-written respite that gently explores the quiet process of learning and living with the forest. "Finding the Forest" fits well into the forest landscape. It is simply written and expresses a wealth of unpretentious wisdom.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important and enjoyable essays on forests., August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Finding the Forest (Hardcover)

I read "Finding The Forest" from my personal perspective of having forged a long driveway through our forest, often following hints of old logging roads - having built a home in the woods and watched as the second-growth forest matured around me. I have planted hundreds of trees in near-by fallow fields and gazed with awe and longing at huge white pine stumps found throughout the area. The forest is part of my home and a major part of my photographic travels.

What I discovered in "Finding the Forest" was an affirmation of common feelings, and the guiding hand of an expert offering fresh perspectives, such as in the chapter "Red Pine Maligned." Here, Peter rebuts the common notion of a red pine plantation being "an ecological desert" with a first-hand tour of his growing forest and the diversity found within it.

In a time when debate over forest management policies are often driven more by sentiment than by science, "Finding the Forest" offers woodland owners a good read and an excellent guide to looking at their own forest through the eyes of a professional forester.

Craig Blacklock, Nature Photographer

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Essays, October 11, 2007

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This review is from: Finding the Forest (Paperback)

This short book is a series of forestry essays on a wide range of topics. The author is a professional forester and has a practical bent to forestry. It is more of an idea book rather than a specific how-to volume. I especially liked the essay on the red pine monoculture plantation.