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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World - Oakes, Lauren E
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The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten ...

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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World 2018, Basic Books

ISBN-13: 9781541697126

Hardcover