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Ray Raphael

Ray Raphael is an author and teacher from northwestern California. He has written eight other books, including Edges: Human Ecology of the Backcountry and An Everyday History of Somewhere, which won the Commonwealth Club Award for the best book of the year about California.

More Tree Talk

More Tree Talk

The People, Politics, and Economics of Timber

More Tree Talk is an insightful and compelling look at the human dimension of the challenges facing forestry. First published in 1981, Tree Talk was widely hailed as the most even-handed and well-written introduction to forestry issues available. More Tree Talk is an entirely revised edition of that classic volume that brings the book up-to-date with the current situation.

Like the original, More Tree Talk features a running narrative punctuated by individual portraits that personalize the issues.