Canopy of titans : the life and times of the great North American temperate rainforest / Jessica Applegate and Paul Koberstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Applegate, Jessica, author.

Koberstein, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rain forests.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : OR Books, [2023]

Summary:

"Trees are crucial in preserving a liveable future. Canopy of Titans makes an eloquent plea for saving one of North America's last great forests." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska and catalogs the threats to this vital environmental resource. The product of years of on-the-ground reporting, this richly illustrated book celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests. It provides readers with easy-to-grasp insights into the science behind carbon sequestration and the value of forests as climate mitigation. The story is organized along two broad narratives: A geographical arc runs from south-to-north beginning with the redwood forest of Northern California and ending in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A temporal arc starts with wildfires raging across the American West in the summer of 2020 and ends at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021, with many historical flashbacks in between. Along the way, Applegate and Koberstein pull back the curtain on policies of governmental bodies that have seriously diminished the rainforest's capacity to store carbon, and uncover industry practices that have led to the destruction of swaths of a major ecological resource. Additionally, using an environmental justice perspective, the book shines a light on the indigenous communities that have lived in the rainforest for millennia, and the impact forest policies have had on their lives.

Contents:

Front Cover

Back Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Prologue: Amazon of the North

Part 1: Forests and Climate

Chapter 1: Where the Forest has no Name

Chapter 2: Too Good to be True

Chapter 3: Guardians of the Climate

Chapter 4: The Playbook

Part 2: Oregon

Chapter 5: The Siuslaw Liquidation

Chapter 6: "Looters of the Public Domain"

Chapter 7: From Agent Orange to Atrazine

Part 3: The Keystone Species

Chapter 8: The Invasion

Chapter 9: Mayhem on the Nehalem

Chapter 10: The Blue Carbon Zone

Part 4: This Is Their Forest

Chapter 11: Stolen Ancestral Homelands

Chapter 12: A Resilient Community

Chapter 13: Husduwach Nuyem Jees (Land of Milky Blue Waters)

Chapter 14: Up on Fairy Creek

Part 5: Alaska

Chapter 15: Trump's Great Alaska Forest Liquidation Sale

Chapter 16: Coming Back for the Rest

Chapter 17: Greenwashing the Climate Apocalypse

Part 6: Aftermath

Chapter 18: The Run- up to Glasgow

Chapter 19: The Procrastination Summit

Epilogue: The Solution Grows on Trees

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Further Reading

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Applegate, Jessica Canopy of Titans

ISBN:

1-68219-346-2