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FORESTS
FOREVER ALERTS
12/12/08
GET HOLIDAY CHEER with FORESTS FOREVER GIFTS
Order T-Shirts, Mugs,
Caps and the New FORESTS FOREVER Book!
SAN FRANCISCO — Do the forests a favor this
season with great holiday gifts!
Forests Forever works hard all year long to protect
ancient forests and put an end to clearcutting. Your contributions
for Forests Forever merchandise will help the organization keep
California green.
Plus, if you’re really committed and eager
to pitch in, we’re seeking Bay Area volunteers to help out
with our marketing effort!
Topping the Forests Forever merchandise list this
year is an important new book on forest ecology and conservation,
John J. Berger’s FORESTS FOREVER: Their Ecology,
Restoration and Protection.
Hot off the press from the Forests Forever Foundation
and The Center for American Places, FORESTS FOREVER is
being distributed nationwide by the University of Chicago Press.
The book is now available in hardcover ($55.50 including shipping)
and softcover ($33.50 including shipping).
In FORESTS FOREVER, Berger discusses how
we might learn to live with forests without destroying them. The
book explains principles of sustainability and talks about how we
can and must reverse the damage done to forests by decades of destructive
mismanagement and careless overuse.
This handsome volume boasts 88 pages of color and
black-and-white photographs by some of the most respected names
in nature photography, including Gary Braasch, Daniel Dancer, Bob
Herger, Martin Litton and Larry Ulrich.
To order the book and/or such collectible FoFo logo
items as t-shirts, mugs, caps, mousepads and stickers, visit the
Forests Forever online store at http://www.forestsforever.org/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/online-store/scstore/shophome.html?E+scstore
Ordering through Forests Forever’s website
ensures that more of your purchase contribution dollar goes directly
to Forests Forever.
Forests Forever is going all-out to present Berger’s
superbly researched and written book to the world. We’re even
looking for marketing volunteers to help out at the author’s
office in Berkeley.
If you live in or near Berkeley and want to undertake
promotional tasks such as phone calls and letter writing, give us
a call at (415) 974-3636 or send an email to mail@forestsforever.org
ASAP to let us know you’re available.
Berger holds advanced degrees in energy and natural
resources and in ecology. His other books include Restoring the
Earth: How Americans Are Working to Renew Our Damaged Environment;
and Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What It
Means for America.
Naturalist and author Chris Maser (Trees, Truffles,
and Beasts: How Forests Function; Forest Primeval: The
Natural History of an Ancient Forest) writes:
“Society has learned little from history,
in part because the cumulative tyranny of unwise decisions, which
led to catastrophic events, has seldom been chronicled. In his book,
FORESTS FOREVER, John Berger provides a rare archive of
such myopic political/economic actions that, if taken seriously,
can help prevent further destruction of the world’s forests,
which, after all, constitute part of the global commons. As such,
sustainable forests are everyone_s birthright.”
In addition to making FORESTS FOREVER available
to our friends, admirers and supporters, we’re also promoting
our exclusive merchandise items, all emblazoned with the distinctive
Forests Forever logo.
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The Fall 2008 edition of The Watershed
is now online!
Forests Forever’s in-depth newsletter covers
the latest issues affecting California’s forests. Read our
banner story on the good news from the North Coast! Plus catch up
on forest economics for a new millennium, meet a group of Sierra
Nevada citizens challenging clearcuts in their neighborhood, and
read our editorial take on the North Coast forest revolution’s
evolution.
To access a PDF version of the latest issue of The Watershed,
go to:
http://www.forestsforever.org/newsarch08.html
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