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Earlier this year, I read a couple of books that made me want to plant a forest. So, that’s what I ended up doing.
The first book was Barkskins, by Annie Proulx, and the second was The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Barkskins is set in early New France and tells a story of several generations of foresters. Spanning the globe and exploring the cultural and economic relationship of humans with forests and trees, this is a story about forest industrialists, Indigenous peoples, and the loss of old-growth forests.