Eating Dirt Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

by Gill, Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9781553657927
• ISBN10: 1553657926
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-24
• Publisher: Greystone Books

Summary

Winner of the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A Globe 100 Best Book Eating Dirtis an extended postcard from the cut blocks -- a vivid portrayal of one woman's life planting trees, her insights into the forest industry and its environmental implications, and a celebration of the wonder of trees. Charlotte Gillspent almost twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.

Author Biography

Charlotte Gill is the author of the story collection Ladykiller, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Stories, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Her narrative non-fiction has been nominated for Western and National Magazine Awards. She spent nearly two decades working in the forests of Canada and has planted more than a million trees.

Table of Contents

The Last Place on Earth	p. 1
A Kind of Tribe	p. 16
Rookie Years	p. 46
Green Fluorescent Protein	p. 64
A Furious Way of Being	p. 88
The Town that Logging Made	p. 112
At the End of the Reach	p. 148
Extremophiles	p. 183
Sunset	p. 209
Exit Lines	p. 232
Selected Bibliography	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 249
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