num_pages: 288
description: The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests flourishing again in the wake of destruction and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent insightful and deeply heartening In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.
language: English
title: In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
publisher: Basic Books