Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environm…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's wood trade is illegal, and an estimated 80 percent of all Amazonian wood harvested today is poached. (In Cambodia that number jumps to 90 percent.)"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Scientists have stumbled on the remains of ancient woods in this way, locating root systems that continue to support the forest long after the body of the tree has disappeared. In this sense the tree’s influence extends beyond the scope of its body; it remains an ancestor. The trees that once towered here on Yurok land continue to inform the actions and reactions of trees in front of us today."-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to regard trees as a symbol of immortality or continuity," wrote Lee in one study. Rural residents, by contrast, "can live with the ambivalence of loving nature and cutting trees. It's an acceptance that that's life."-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Automation, globalization, and increased education requirements - compounded by failures in government and institutions - have given rise to a generation of disconnected and fearful people. The number of men who have dropped out of the labour force and stopped looking for work has quintupled since the 1950s. The result is a form of community trauma deeply felt in many rural areas: intergenerational poverty, long-term unemployment, degraded environments, disconnected social relationships, and destructive social norms."-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
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4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
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2. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
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3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
4. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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5. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
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6. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
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Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
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3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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9. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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10. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
By: Joshua Hammer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
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3.69
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13. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
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4.05
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
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15. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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16. Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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18. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
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4.35
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19. Troubled Waters
By: Mary Annaïse Heglar
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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4.20
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21. The Incorrigibles
By: Meredith Jaeger
4.09
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