unfortunately, there is really not many “popular” books on indigenous and native peoples forest management. There are a few books out there on the tropical rainforests, but relatively little from out here. If anything Nancy Turner (The Earth’s Blanket, Keeping it Living) is as close as I can find. Most of the indigenous “work” has been up in BC. There is also the book “Tongass” that is a anthology of essays about forestry up in Alaska that have some good pieces.

So There are some more forest history books about Clayoquot sound that are good, that I can’t remember the names of right now. But, if you are really interested I have some papers and reports about modern Indian land management, specifically around fire management. The information is out there, but mostly back cataloged in government reports and tribal reports (that some good internet sleuthing would help with). if you email me I can send you some good pdfs, or post them on here somewhere if that is possible.

Exploring these questions in depth is beyond the scope of this program, no doubt, but a little dabbling might be possible? I am interested in the book “Tending the Wild” by Kat Anderson. There is an interesting chapter in it about cultivating woody species, as well as just good thoughts about the people-land relationship.

I read those two books back in Olympic Peninsula as sort of a literary “foil” to Tappiener et al. and found the dichotomies of how “sustainable” is defined and experimented with rewarding.

There is also the book Good Forestry: From Good Theories and Good Practices by this guy Alan Wittbecker. I have only flipped through it but it seemed like a good companion with the other two texts since it is more or less an ecoforestry a la carte of essays with a heavy dose of philosophy the beginning chapters, but some interesting case studies towards the end.

There used to be an ecoforestry journal that you can access the archives from (http://www.ecoforestry.ca/journal.htm)

Other good books are

Beloved of the Sky: Essays on clearcutting which I though was just great, a lot similar to working the woods working the sea. It is a collection of essays by various northwest coast environmentalists, loggers, writers, and foresters, and backcountry woodsfolk on leaving and coming to terms within a landscape dominated by the dominant industrial forestry paradigm. I would even recommend doing working the woods working the sea again, it was such a great humanizing text, that we never really got to delve into with Olympic Peninsula.

There is a pretty new book that came out (2008) that I read over the summer that I felt was a really good “state of affairs” of where the direction of forestry is going in America, especially on public lands. Its called Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection by John Berger. Its mostly heavy on how they have been managed, and forest policy, but its a really solid read, and in some respects would put the ecoforestry texts, forest primeval (and most of what Chris Maser writes the redesigned forest etc) and the golden spruce in a more relevant perspective from the 80s-90s.

There was no information about Forst Primeval on Amazon so I do not know how well this would fit into our program.

The other two books I already own so either using them or not works well for my finances.

I hope these comments are useful.