Canopy of Titans
The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest

Canopy of Trees describes the Pacific Temperate Rain Forest that stretches from the coastal redwoods of Northern California to Southern Alaska. This forest is home to the world’s largest and tallest trees. The authors propose this forest is comparable to the Amazon rain forest in its ability to sequ......more

I was really grateful to the authors for pulling all this information about our beloved temperate rainforest together. I learned a lot of detail about the ways in which government has been complicit with the extractive industries in decimating this amazing and beautiful environment. Our mature and o......more

As someone who lives in the Pacific Northwest I think that this is one of the most important books about this region. It's incredibly well researched, written in an engaging and accessible way, and leaves you feeling inspired to protect our old growth and mature forests. It taught me how important t......more

A must read to understand our Pacific Northwest Forests--the rampant history of logging, the quest to protect ancient forests, and their values for biodiversity and carbon. The journalism is excellent. the book is relevant today with the Trump administration's new mandate to make logging the priorit......more

This is hopeful at the same time it delivers an anxious message. It places the reader alongside salmon habitat and native wildlife within the protection of an old-growth forest. The effectiveness of a forest to regenerate itself and the planet gave me solace while the primary theme of the book is ab......more