Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathewsx
Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathewsx
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Trees in Trouble
Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change

Author: Daniel Mathewsx

Narrator: Jamie Hanes

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020

Synopsis

Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource. Mathews transports listeners from the exquisitely aromatic haze of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine groves to the fantastic gnarls and whorls of five-thousand-year-old bristlecone pines, from genetic-test nurseries where white-pine seedlings are deliberately infected with their mortal enemy to the hottest mega-fire sites and neighborhoods leveled by fire tornadoes or ember blizzards. Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating ripple effects of climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our forests. Mathews also offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is underway. Trees in Trouble explores how we might succeed in sustaining our forests through the challenging transition to a new environment.

About Daniel Mathewsx

Daniel Mathews is the author of Rocky Mountain Natural History and Cascade-Olympic Natural History. During a career of writing about the natural history of western North America, he has backpacked far and wide, watched for fires from Desolation Peak Lookout, witnessed a forty-foot fir crash onto his family’s house in a storm, and lived for years in a forest cabin without electricity, heating with firewood and writing by kerosene lamp. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick on September 27, 2024

It was just too messy and informal. It didn't feel like the author structured it to the best that it could've been. At points the book would expect you to know things that will be touched on later, or he'll go back and explain something important that should've been explained earlier. The informal l......more

Goodreads review by Anna on July 04, 2020

At times this was a bit of a slog but it was generally very interesting. I had trouble keeping up with the different kinds of western pines and their various adaptations or problems. The overall message of climate change is loud and clear though and it exacerbates all the other problems of fires, be......more

Goodreads review by Jason on September 10, 2020

Author took too much liberty with his voice from my liking. Give me the data and the science not your opinions.......more

Goodreads review by Barney on July 12, 2020

Daniel Mathews writes in great depth about devastating challenges facing our forests. He treats this complex subject with a compelling narrative. He does describes all the damage we've done, he is not all gloom and doom. And the book is populated with so many rich people stories, about those on the......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on July 21, 2021

There’s absolutely no question in my mind that Daniel Mathews is a fluid and competent writer of ecological and dendrological themes, the study of surviving and struggling organisms throughout nature as well as the vast architecture of trees and their classifications throughout the forests of the No......more

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