03161cam a2200373 4500 530583332 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781553657934 1553657934 B005O3AMJC Amazon aa06a529-56b6-4804-87e5-fabb4e27ddee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 844691 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gill, Charlotte. Eating Dirt [Libby] : Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe. Greystone Books, 2011. Trees & Forests. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1183kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:<ul> <li><b>Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction</b><br /> • Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.<br /> During <b>Charlotte Gill</b>'s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.<br /> In <b><i>Eating Dirt</i></b>, <b>Gill</b> offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems. Among other topics, she also touches on the boom-and-bust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. She also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, our slowest-growing “renewable" resource and joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees.</li> </ul>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/AA0/6A5/29/EatingDirt9781553657934.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AA06A529-56B6-4804-87E5-FABB4E27DDEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/AA0/6A5/29/EatingDirt9781553657934.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AA06A529-56B6-4804-87E5-FABB4E27DDEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/AA0/6A5/29/EatingDirt9781553657934.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AA06A529-56B6-4804-87E5-FABB4E27DDEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)