Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry

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Summary: Shocking reality comes to light,through a camera's lens
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Summary: Great Book, but the Photos are of newspaper quality.
Review: This book is a shocking revelation of the extent of clearcutting in our national forests (public lands owned by you and me and given over to companies like Weyerhauser under massive government subsidy contracts). Despite what public relations materials from Forest Products companies will have you believe, clearcutting (removing all the trees from a vast area) does not replicate natural processes (such as fire or windthrow), is not sustainable and has devastating ecological consequences for the watershed and forest community. This book provides many photos (most of them aerial) of huge swaths of forest that have been harvested in this way. The author's aim is to motivate - through outrage - the average citizen so he can take action to curtail clear-cutting in our national forests (especially old growth stands).

An imoportant note about the quality of photos: While the photos in this book are large and from great vantage points, the entire book is printed on post-consumer recycled paper. This means that the photos have a similar quality to the color photos in a newspaper such as USAToday or the New York Times. In short, if you are expecting the glossy, highly-defined photos that you may be accustomed to in nature photography books, you may be dissappointed.

Still, this book is worth the money. It will definitely increase your awareness of the wholesale looting and destruction of our national heritage.

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Summary: A MUST-HAVE BOOK
Review: This is an incredible, epic book that every person should have.