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List Price: £35.00
Our Price: £23.63
Author:
Cyril Hart
By The History Press Ltd
 All you need to know, 2008-11-25
Fairly early on in my Forestry degree we discovered this book. It really does have the vast majority of everything you need to know to complete the course. It has become the first thing I suggest to anyone thinking of studying forestry. Highly recommended.
List Price: £8.99
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Author:
John Vaillant
By Arrow Books Ltd
 A mythic tree in the Canadian Galapagos, 2005-09-12
This entertaining narrative is about a mythic tree in the Canadian Galapagos. Author John Vaillant explains how the Golden Spruce and Grant Hadwin...the immensely talented but deeply troubled frontiersman who cut it down in an act of protest against over logging were...one in a billion. Vaillant is a majestic writer. His historical description of Canada's Northwest Coastal forest in British Columbia is superb. The author carefully details how the Northwest forests support more living tissue, by weight, than an other eco system, including the Equatorial jungle. He also reports how the Queen Charlotte Islands were the historical territory of the Haida People, who call their home Haida Gwaii. The Haida People knew the Golden Spruce was exceptional and called it "K'iid K'iyaas" for the Elder Spruce Tree. The woodcutter has been the point man for Western civilization. Some loggers are good, considerate road builders. Unfortunately, most loggers are extremely wasteful and rape the earth. Grant Hadwin was a rugged woodcutter and intelligent road builder who detested the giant corporations that destroyed vast forests with little concern for fundamental environmental considerations. Over time Hadwin leaves his wonderful family...becomes mentally unglued...and commits a great crime. Recommended. Bert Ruiz
List Price: £36.00
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Author:
Transport & the Regions, Dept.of the Environment
By Stationery Office Books
Excellent field book for the serious tree pathologist, 2000-07-25
An updated edition containing new species of tree pathogens to the UK. It remains as ever the bible for foresters and arborists both undergraduate and graduate alike. Still the most practical and easily indentifiable way of diagnosing tree pathogens. The author remains insurpassable as ever.
List Price: £19.50
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Author:
Bernard Kestel
By Landlinks Press
Save your skin and read this book., 2008-03-22
This is an ideal book for the chainsaw novice. If you buy a chainsaw to use in the garden get this book, it could save your life. Chainsaws can be lethal in the hands of the inexperienced/uninformed.
List Price: £16.99
Our Price: £12.99
Author:
Christopher Starr
By The Crowood Press Ltd
A wood that pays is a wood that stays, 2007-08-30
An excellent book for students and landowners, it starts with a brief history of woodland in Britain, followed by a chapter on tree biology and sylvicultural systems which is comprehensive and written in refreshingly plain english. The native and commonly used non-native trees are then detailed followed by how to draw up a management plan, essential if you want grant aid. Then the nitty-gritty of planting, protecting, measurement and marketing.
This is a very practical book on managing woodlands as a whole, very sensitive to their wildlife and landscape value but stressing that woodlands that pay are more likely to last.
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