The Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain ForestThe northwestern edge of North America is a final edge to settle on a finite planet. Where does mankind go from here? Where else have we not settled, altered, and consumed? Author Susan Zwinger suspects that we have saved this wild edge for last because its geography is punched, exploded, ground, and drenched. Its forest of enormous trees once created a boundary difficult to penetrate, let alone farm. Yet, today this wildness is under threat, as civilization bores its way into even this remote edge. |
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... Coast Land of No Trees at All 3 Land of Scrawny Trees and Huge Miracles 9 Of Howls and Timberline 19 At the Edge of Taiga 27 The Icy Edge 37 Part Two The Coast of British Columbia : Home of the Old Growth Rain Forest Introduction 51 The ...
... Coast Land of No Trees at All 3 Land of Scrawny Trees and Huge Miracles 9 Of Howls and Timberline 19 At the Edge of Taiga 27 The Icy Edge 37 Part Two The Coast of British Columbia : Home of the Old Growth Rain Forest Introduction 51 The ...
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... Coast of Vancouver Island 127 The Incredible Lightness of Trail Building : Clayoquot Sound 139 Part Four The Olympic Edge from Ice to Ocean Bottom Mount Olympus's Mighty Blue Glacier 149 The Forest Canopy : A Species Democracy 157 A ...
... Coast of Vancouver Island 127 The Incredible Lightness of Trail Building : Clayoquot Sound 139 Part Four The Olympic Edge from Ice to Ocean Bottom Mount Olympus's Mighty Blue Glacier 149 The Forest Canopy : A Species Democracy 157 A ...
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... coastal mountain ranges — the Alaskan , the Wrangellian , the Cordilleran , the Cascadian , the Olympian — created entire ... Coast . I traveled in spurts , not in a logical order . To write about my journeys , I rearranged them into a ...
... coastal mountain ranges — the Alaskan , the Wrangellian , the Cordilleran , the Cascadian , the Olympian — created entire ... Coast . I traveled in spurts , not in a logical order . To write about my journeys , I rearranged them into a ...
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... coastal British Columbia , through bogs and immense rain forests . We sailed in and out of the vast fjord system to document pristine territory that was about to be clearcut with the blessing of the Canadian " Ministre " of Forests ...
... coastal British Columbia , through bogs and immense rain forests . We sailed in and out of the vast fjord system to document pristine territory that was about to be clearcut with the blessing of the Canadian " Ministre " of Forests ...
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... Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain Forest Susan Zwinger. Part One 2 From the Arctic Circle to the Alaskan Coast Dawson City Fort McPherson Keno NORTHW TERRITO Carmacks YUKON White Ross River Horse Atlin Land of No Trees at All 66 ° 45 '
... Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain Forest Susan Zwinger. Part One 2 From the Arctic Circle to the Alaskan Coast Dawson City Fort McPherson Keno NORTHW TERRITO Carmacks YUKON White Ross River Horse Atlin Land of No Trees at All 66 ° 45 '
Contents
Land of No Trees at All | 3 |
Land of Scrawny Trees and Huge Miracles | 9 |
Off Howls and Timberline | 19 |
At the Edge of Taiga | 27 |
The Icy Edge | 37 |
Introduction | 51 |
The Land of Origin | 55 |
Namu | 73 |
Introduction | 113 |
The Wide Bights of Cape Scott | 115 |
West Coast of Vancouver Island | 127 |
Clayoquot Sound | 139 |
Mount Olympuss Mighty Blue Glacier | 149 |
A Species Democracy | 157 |
From Detritus to Salmon | 169 |
Through a Hand Lens Lightly | 177 |
The Dance of the Great Brown Bears | 77 |
Rivers Inlet South to Cape Caution | 89 |
The Classic Hecate Lowlands | 99 |
Bibliography | 183 |
About the Author | 189 |
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Page xiv - FACING west from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled ; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having...
Page xiv - Western sea, the circle almost circled ; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd, Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous, (But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound...