The Twilight Forest by Gary Ferguson HARDBACK 9781642833423

Princeton University Press

The Twilight ForestAn Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West\nAuthor(s): Gary Ferguson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Island Press, United States\nImprint: Island Press\nISBN-13: 9781642833423, 978-1642833423\nSynopsis\nWith their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies,\nponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American\nWest. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun:\nin the past decade, in a vast\narea from Santa Fe\nto the Sierras, more than two hundred million ponderosa have died. While some trees will\nsurvive in cooler places, scientists estimate that by mid-century less than five percent\nof the ponderosa in the American Southwest may remain. As the very character of this vast region shifts, what will be left behind?\nAnd how can we come to terms with such profound loss?\n\nIn The Twilight\nForest, Gary\nFerguson brings readers\non an expansive journey through\nthe ponderosa forests\nof the Southwest both to mourn-and to celebrate-the forests that nurt.