{"product_id":"big-lonely-doug-the-story-of-one-of-canada-s-last-great-trees","title":"Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees","description":"Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\nFinalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition\nFinalist, BC Book Prize\nGlobe and Mail best books of 2018\nCBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018\nIn the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\nOn a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests.\nOriginally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1487003110\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1487003110.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rustad, Harley\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43434152493117,"sku":"BVV.1487003110.G","price":7.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1487003110-0.jpg?v=1786051081","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/big-lonely-doug-the-story-of-one-of-canada-s-last-great-trees","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}