Learning from the Forest (Softcopy) by Robert Bott

People from around the world have visited the foothills near Hinton in northwestern Alberta to absorb the land ethic of the company that took on stewardship of this area's publicly owned forests in 1954. Learning from the forest is part history of the company now called (Wellwood of Canada Hinton Division), part forestry survey and part proposal for the future of silviculture-- the art and science of growing trees. From the outset, the managers of the Hinton Forest recognized the challenges of managing forests whose lifecycles are measured in centuries. Learning from the forest describes the evolution of the forward thinking necessary to successful forest management-from the 1950s ideal of ensuring a perpetual timber supply to today's goal of maintaining a forest that sustains multiple uses and values. In Hinton, this includes the extraction of other natural resources; recreation, including public parks, camping, hiking, skiing and canoeing and the protection of wildlife habitat and Aboriginal cultural sites. New softcover. 2003.

People from around the world have visited the foothills near Hinton in northwestern Alberta to absorb the land ethic of the company that took on stewardship of this area's publicly owned forests in 1954. Learning from the forest is part history of the company now called (Wellwood of Canada Hinton Division), part forestry survey and part proposal for the future of silviculture-- the art and science of growing trees. From the outset, the managers of the Hinton Forest recognized the challenges of managing forests whose lifecycles are measured in centuries. Learning from the forest describes the evolution of the forward thinking necessary to successful forest management-from the 1950s ideal of ensuring a perpetual timber supply to today's goal of maintaining a forest that sustains multiple uses and values. In Hinton, this includes the extraction of other natural resources; recreation, including public parks, camping, hiking, skiing and canoeing and the protection of wildlife habitat and Aboriginal cultural sites. New softcover. 2003. P051.