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CANOPY OF TITANS : the life and times of the great north american temperate rainforest by Applegate, Jessica, Koberstein, Paul is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Extensively investigated with years of boots-on-the-ground journalism, Canopy of Titans provides readers easy-to-grasp insights into the science behind carbon sequestration and the value of forests as climate mitigation. Canopy of Titans examines these themes through the lens of an enormous forested ecosystem it calls the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest, though the ecosystem has no officially designated name. The book pulls back the curtain on policies that enable governmental bodies to pursue destructive practices that crippled the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest's capacity to store carbon, and uncover industry practices that led to the destruction of critical swaths of this important ecological resource. Additionally, the book shines a light -- using an environmental justice perspective -- on the indigenous communities living in the Pacific Coastal rainforest for millennia, and the impact forest policies have had on their lives. Canopy of Titans is organized along two major narrative arcs. A geographical arc runs from south-to-north beginning with the redwood forest of California and ending in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A temporal arc starts with wildfires r

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Author

Applegate, Jessica, Koberstein, Paul

Publisher

OR Books, LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781682193457

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Stem