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Andrew Nikiforuk

Empire of the Beetle

How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

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Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geograp… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-55365-894-8
  • EAN: 9781553658948
  • Produktnummer: 21848025
  • Verlag: Greystone Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 650 KB

Über den Autor


Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses. His bestselling book Tar Sands won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.

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