As logging continues to rule the rural Northwest, Wintergreen's message is more important than ever. Set in the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both people and forest are threatened with extinction. Timeless among the literature of the land, Wintergreen is now back in print with a new afterword by the author.
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In the southwest corner of Washington State lie the Willapa Hills, a temperate, rain-drenched land of perennial greenness. Still the habitat of fungi, mosses, lichens, and ferns, they were once the home of "one of the greatest forests on earth." But as Pyle so articulately states, years of improvident lumbering practices and economic greed have despoiled the hills, decimated the wildlife, and rendered the future uncertain. Out of this, his chosen home, Pyle has created a collection of vividly responsive observations and speculations about the diversity and requirements of life, from butterfiles to bears. Written by the author of The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers (Scribner, 1984) , this book of essays will appeal to all caring observers of the ecosystem. Recommended.Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Robert Michael Pyle is one of America's leading nature writers. His fifteen books include Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Nabokov's Butterflies. He received a Ph.D. in ecology from Yale University and lives in rural Washington.
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ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE is the author of fourteen books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, he is a full-time writer living in southwestern Washington.
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wintergreen land, stump watcher, rain world, green snail, tailed frog, nature bats, licorice ferns, spring azures, cedar stump, veined whites, banana slugs, bigleaf maples, tiger swallowtails, timber interests, log trucks, sword ferns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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wintergreen land, stump watcher, rain world, green snail, tailed frog, nature bats, licorice ferns, spring azures, cedar stump, veined whites, banana slugs, bigleaf maples, tiger swallowtails, timber interests, log trucks, sword ferns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Willapa Hills, Umbrella Tree, Wahkiakum County, Columbia River, Long Island, Pacific Northwest, Gray's Harbor, Swede Park, Timbered Tor, Hendrickson Canyon, Willapa Bay, Robert Gray, Washington State, Deep River, South Bend, University of Washington, Crown Zellerbach, Oregon Coast Range, Elk Mountain, Irving Petite, British Columbia, Great Britain, Puget Island, Radar Hill, Salmon Creek New!
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