BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees

    (By Harley Rustad)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Harley Rustad
    “Book Descriptions: In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.

    On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests.

    Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

    ★★★★★

    Peter Wohlleben

    Book 1

    Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past

    ★★★★★

    Brett Popplewell

    Book 1

    Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

    ★★★★★

    John Vaillant

    Book 1

    Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown

    ★★★★★

    Adam Shoalts

    Book 1

    Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

    ★★★★★

    Adam Shoalts

    Book 1

    The Inheritance

    ★★★★★

    Joanna Goodman

    Book 1

    Greenwood

    ★★★★★

    Michael Christie

    Book 1

    The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

    ★★★★★

    Sharon Blackie

    Book 1

    Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

    ★★★★★

    Adam Shoalts

    Book 1

    The Bittlemores

    ★★★★★

    Jann Arden

    Book 1

    Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Maria Coffey

    Book 1

    The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

    ★★★★★

    Peter Wohlleben

    Book 1

    The Phoenix Crown

    ★★★★★

    Kate Quinn

    Book 1

    The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

    ★★★★★

    Ben Rawlence

    Book 1

    Eating Dirt

    ★★★★★

    Charlotte Gill

    Book 1

    The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    ★★★★★

    John Vaillant