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Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree Planting Tribe
Eating Dirt offers a look at tree-planting life with all of its soggy and gritty details. It tells the story of the magical life of the forest as well as the ancient relationship between humans and trees, which are our slowest-growing renewable resource. The book reveals the environmental impact of logging, and also questions the ability of artificially created conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolve over millennia into complex ecosystems.
Author Charlotte Gill is a former professional tree planter who planted more than a million trees over seventeen seasons. Her short story collection Ladykiller was a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and winner of the Danuta Gleed Award in 2006. She lives in Vancouver.
Eating Dirt offers a look at tree-planting life with all of its soggy and gritty details. It tells the story of the magical life of the forest as well as the ancient relationship between humans and trees, which are our slowest-growing renewable resource. The book reveals the environmental impact of logging, and also questions the ability of artificially created conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolve over millennia into complex ecosystems.
Author Charlotte Gill is a former professional tree planter who planted more than a million trees over seventeen seasons. Her short story collection Ladykiller was a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and winner of the Danuta Gleed Award in 2006. She lives in Vancouver.