Forests
Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration and Protection
Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration and Protection
is a revised edition of John J. Berger’s successful 1998 book
Understanding Forests. The first edition was brought out
by Sierra Club Books, a highly respected publishing house. That
edition is now completely sold out.
Forests Forever synthesizes the ideas and practices of current
forestry science and
management, bringing together ideas from many different disicplines—ecological,
political, social, economic, anthropological—in a concise,
readable prose. The complex whole of forestry science and practice
is placed before the reader in a clear, orderly progression of ideas.
As the full title suggests, Forests Forever discusses how
we might learn to live with forests without destroying them. It
treats principles of sustainable forestry and talks about how the
damage done to forests by decades of destructive mismanagement and
careless overuse can be reversed. By the end of the book, the reader
will have a good idea of how forests work and what should be done
to save them.
Berger has updated the book with an examination
of recent developments in forestry. In a new chapter "Forest
Policy Changes since 2000," Berger scrutinizes the policy
initiatives and political appointments of the Bush administration,
and discusses their potential effects on the nation’s forests.
He also takes a look at more positive developments in forest protection,
such as the Canadian Boreal Initiative, which has proposed the preservation
of 50 percent of the vast Canadian boreal forest and the sustainable
management of the rest.
Three 32-page gallerys of contemporary color photographs by some
of the most respected names in nature photography, names such as
Gary Braasch, Daniel Dancer, Bob Herger, and Larry Ulrich, let the
reader see forests in their natural splendor, as well as showing
scenes of horrific and unnecessary forest destruction.
Well researched, clearly written, and with a forceful message about
the fate of the world’s threatened woodlands, Forests
Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration and Protection should appeal
to college-level readers and to a broad public concerned with the
environment and biodiversity.
To
our supporters: Forests Forever apologizes for the
continuing delays in the publication of Forests Forever: Their
Ecology, Restoration and Protection. Resolving outstanding
editing and artistic issues took more time than anyone had planned;
this, combined with an industry-wide delay in printing, has put
back the appearance of the book until 2008. We will have advance
copies in hand by Summer 2008; the book is currently available for pre-ordering
through the University of Chicago Press.
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