Wintergreen: rambles in a ravaged land

Description

In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acre of the hills has been logged, often repeatedly, in the past hundred years, endangering both the land and the people, leaving dying towns as well as a devastated ecosystem. Weaving vivid portraits of the place and its inhabitants—animal, plant, and human—with the story of his own love affair with the hills, Robert Michael Pyle has written a book so even-handed in its passion that it has been celebrated by those who make their living with a chain sa.;Prologue; Part I: Rain World; In the Green Land; The Hills of Willapa; Ring of Rivers; Robert Gray's River; Part II: Denizens; Threads of the Green Cloth; Slug Love and Spider Hate; I, Clodius; Waterproof WIldlife; Part III: Hands on the Land; The Sack of the Woods; The Last of the Old Growth; There Ought to be Bears; Stump Watcher; Part IV: Out of the Mists; Rain-Forest Year; Countrymen and Naturalists; And the Coyotes Will Lift a Leg; Wintergreen; Afterword; Acknowledgments.