text The man who planted trees : lost groves, champion trees, and an urgent plan to save the planet
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Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the United State's 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world.
- Contents
- Champion tree -- White oak -- Forests on a warmer planet -- Bristlecone -- Great unknowns -- Willow -- David's tale -- Redwood -- Cloning redwoods -- Dawn redwood -- A light shines down -- Stinking cedar -- The planet's filters and other ecosystem... Read more
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- Description
- xxii, 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau 2012
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