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Wild Logging: A Guide to Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Forestry

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Wild Logging: A Guide To Environmentally And Economically Sustainable Forestry by forestry expert Bryan Foster is a useful and "user friendly" guide designed especially for the owners and managers of private forest lands. Wild Logging will enable the reader to craft a charter for private and corporate land-based forestry management that balances both harvesting interests and long-term ecological stability. Wild Logging is confidently recommended as being an exceptionally thoughtful, balanced and practical guide which is deftly written to provide a viable commercial alternative to the evils of clear-cutting or forest habitat destruction.

This book provides interesting case studies about the management of (mostly) western forestland. The layout of the book is a little choppy (the sidebars interupt the arc of the greater storyline) but the insights into the personalities that are preserving our forestlands for future generations make it worthwhile. The book provides good introductory level information that is practical and useful for forest landowners.

This book is simply a collection of stories about different people and how they have managed their woodlands. There is no in-depth discussion of logging methods, and little about the economics of the business. The book seemed aimed at people who want a little hobby to go with their land.