Gill, Charlotte, 1971-

Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe / Charlotte Gill. - First paperback edition 2012 First U.S. edition 2012 - Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2012, ©2011. - 247 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.

The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.



9781553659778 (cloth) 9781553657927 (paperback) 9781553657934 (ebook)

2016438278


Gill, Charlotte, 1971-


Forests and forestry--Canada.
Tree planting--Canada.
Tree planters (Persons)--Canada.
Tree planters (Persons)--Canada--Biography.

SD409 / .G54 2012

333.75/1530971