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Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industrial logging to evolving conceptions of wilderness and restoration forestry. On the surface a story of Minnesota's borderlands, the book more broadly explores the nation's history of resource extraction and wilderness preservation, casting forward to consider what today's actions may mean for the future of America's forests.

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Forester's book should be required reading for anyone planning an adventure in the Minnesota north woods?or, for that matter, for anyone who wants a better appreciation for the past, present, and future of America's forests.--Natural HistoryA detailed and monumental work on the history of lumbering in Minnesota.--Milt Stenlund, wildlife biologist and former regional administrator for the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources An engrossing, authoritative account of the evolving human relationship with land, natural resources, and the environment, The Forest for the Trees is a story of greed, entitlement, corruption, ingenuity, idealism, bureaucratic inertia, and survival, an insightful, unflinching examination of our past, present, and possible future beliefs and behaviors regarding the natural world we inhabit.--Samuel Ligon, author of Safe in Heaven Dead A meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This is a book that can and should be embraced by conservationists, members of the timber industry, backpackers, hunters, and anyone who has hiked through a stand of timber, looked up through the sun-streaked canopy, and felt a giddy, primeval sense of wonder that only a still-wild forest can provoke.--David Weddle, author of Among the Mansions of Eden

Forester's book should be required reading for anyone planning an adventure in the Minnesota north woods?or, for that matter, for anyone who wants a better appreciation for the past, present, and future of America's forests.--Natural History A detailed and monumental work on the history of lumbering in Minnesota.--Milt Stenlund, wildlife biologist and former regional administrator for the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources An engrossing, authoritative account of the evolving human relationship with land, natural resources, and the environment, The Forest for the Trees is a story of greed, entitlement, corruption, ingenuity, idealism, bureaucratic inertia, and survival, an insightful, unflinching examination of our past, present, and possible future beliefs and behaviors regarding the natural world we inhabit.--Samuel Ligon, author of Safe in Heaven Dead A meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This is a book that can and shou

Forester's book should be required reading for anyone planning an adventure in the Minnesota north woods?or, for that matter, for anyone who wants a better appreciation for the past, present, and future of America's forests.--Natural History A detailed and monumental work on the history of lumbering in Minnesota.--Milt Stenlund, wildlife biologist and former regional administrator for the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources An engrossing, authoritative account of the evolving human relationship with land, natural resources, and the environment, The Forest for the Trees is a story of greed, entitlement, corruption, ingenuity, idealism, bureaucratic inertia, and survival, an insightful, unflinching examination of our past, present, and possible future beliefs and behaviors regarding the natural world we inhabit.--Samuel Ligon, author of Safe in Heaven Dead A meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This is a book that can and should be embraced by conservationists, members of the timber industry, backpackers, hunters, and anyone who has hiked through a stand of timber, looked up through the sun-streaked canopy, and felt a giddy, primeval sense of wonder that only a still-wild forest can provoke.--David Weddle, author of Among the Mansions of Eden

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Jeff Forester is a freelance writer and is executive director of a non-profit organisation and an instructor at Concordia University in St Paul. F B Hubachek is president of the Wilderness Research Foundation based in Ely, Minnesota.

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