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In a beautiful blend of cultural and natural history, White Pine takes us on a journey to deeply know one species. From that depth comes the surprising discovery of all the life connected to it and a hopeful guide for our shared future. --Lauren E. Oakes, author of In Search of the Canary Tree John Pastor's wonderfully evocative writing about this iconic American tree is rooted in a lifetime of science and scholarship. It's as much a deep history of the relationships between humans and nature as it is the story of a tree and its environment. --Charles Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, author of Forests Adrift White pine, a cultural icon and source of riches to generations, remains an awe-inspiring and yet enigmatic species in forests across eastern North America. Through engaging history, delightful personal narrative, and wide-ranging research, all accented by his wonderfully detailed pen and ink drawings, John Pastor presents the most insightful book yet on one of America's foundational trees. --David Foster, Director Emeritus, Harvard Forest, author of A Meeting of Land and Sea and editor of Hemlock A slim but quite powerful volume. -- Booklist Pastor's book, which combines a charming professorial sensibility with the expertise and keen observations of a veteran scientist, is history for a layperson, an introduction to forest ecology, a cautionary tale of reckless natural resource harvesting and a roadmap for sustainable foresting practices to conserve precious woods and enable their flourishing...White Pine's information and reverence for life, as well as the conditions life requires, endow it with value for the layperson, historian and seasoned scientist alike. -- Shelf Awareness

A slim but quite powerful volume. -- Booklist

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John Pastor is an ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where his teaching and research focused on the natural history and ecology of northern ecosystems. He is the author of What Should a Clever Moose Eat? and Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems, is co-editor of Large Mammalian Herbivores, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Conservation, and has authored or coauthored 22 book chapters and over 120 papers, mostly about the North Woods. He is a past co-chair of the Natural History Section of the Ecological Society of America and founding editor of ""The Scientific Naturalist"" series in the journal Ecology.

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