Lumbering in Nova Scotia has a long and storied history, dating back nearly for centuries. A rich resource and lose to world markets, lumbering has played an important role in the development of the province, employing thousands of men...
Forests and forestry
- Author:Parker, MikeSummary:
- Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed...
- Author:Ghigna, Charles, Wilkinson, Annie, Down, ChristianSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull...
- Author:Ghigna, Charles, Down, ChristianSummary:
From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull sidewalks. They see an eagle build her nest atop a forgotten...
- Author:Leiren-Young, MarkSummary:
The Green Chain looks at the past, present and future of forestry through interviews with environmentalists, loggers, scientists and others. Raw log exports, environmental devastation, making a living . . . all are discussed in this...
- Author:John MuirSummary:
Wild wool.--A geologist’s winter walk.--Summer days at Mount Shasta.--A perilous night on Shasta’s summit.--Shasta rambles and Modoc memories.--The city of the Saints.--A great storm in Utah.--Bathing in Salt Lake...
- Author:May, ElizabethSummary:
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve is located in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), 130 kilometres off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Gwaii Haanas protects an archipelago of...
- Author:Bentley, Peter J. G.Summary:
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- Author:Baker, AdamSummary:
This Christmas chapter book mixes adult humor with childhood whimsy to create a story that kids and parents will love reading together. A survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, found that only one in three parents read bedtime stories...
- Author:Wohlleben, PeterSummary:
Il y a un Wood Wide Web comme il y a un World Wide Web! Par leurs racines, mais aussi par leurs feuilles et par le pollen qu’ils émettent, bouleaux, épinettes, sapins, érables, pins ou trembles communiquent entre eux. C’est du moins l’...
- Author:Elmquist, Laurie, Robinson, Shantala, Gould, HeatherSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From a carrier, a baby peers out at the trail. Leaves rustle overhead, and a turtle stretches toward the sun. Everything shimmers with light, including the jeweled wings of a...
- Author:Gill, CharlotteSummary:
Fiction writer Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that...
- Author:Jones, TanyaSummary:
Dreams of Beautiful Whisper, Book One in the Elves of Eytherfel Series Not only is this a Y.A. Fantasy novel with elves, magic and romance (as if that wasn’t enough), but it is also a subtle Realty Fiction Fantasy Crossover. With...
- Author:Stewart, PaulSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
- Author:August, JohnSummary:
Arlo Finch is new to Pine Mountain, Colorado, but he has already attracted attention from dark forces. At first he thinks these frightening occurrences are part of being in Rangers. But soon Arlo finds himself facing obstacles that test...
- Author:August, JohnSummary:
Arlo Finch and the Rangers of Pine Mountain Company are headed to Camp Redfeather for two weeks of archery, canoeing, and investigating the ancient monster who lurks in the lake's icy waters. But before they've even gotten on...
- Author:Van Osch, Marianne VanSummary:
The story of one family's settlement in the Cariboo and the culture of early sawmills that developed around them. In 1922, the Judson family arrived in the Cariboo by covered wagon. The stories of their life on the remote homestead...