appalachia

07/01/2002
Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of Sustainable Forestry

Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of Sustainable Forestry, Stackpole Books, 2002. 

From a tattooed ex-con logger to the Republican president of the Sierra Club, from industrial strength timbering to the delicate art of virtually wild forest herb gardening, this book examines the people and the practices that

06/19/2025
The best books about the fall and rise of the Great Forest of Appalachia

Ben Fox of Shepherd Media, a group devoted to books, helping readers find them, and providing authors with exposure, invited me to describe five books that highly influenced me in writing The Appalachian Forest. This involved an intense trip through my many shelves of books about Appalachia and …