{"product_id":"big-lonely-doug-the-story-of-one-of-canadas-last-great-trees-9781487003111","title":"Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, BC Book Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eGlobe and Mail best books of 2018\u003cbr\u003e CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of John Vaillant's modern classic \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words \"Leave Tree.\" The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region's dwindling old-growth forests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally featured as a long-form article in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug \u003c\/em\u003eweaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast's big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRustad, Harley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eHARLEY RUSTAD is an editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. His articles and photography have been published in magazines, newspapers, and online outlets including \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutside\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGeographical\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and CNN. He has reported from India, Nepal, Cuba, and across Canada. Born on Salt Spring Island, BC, he now lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walrus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697321742610,"sku":"9781487003111","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7e137cb-3cd6-4cc3-ad7d-e98ba3a78d11.jpg?v=1734299300","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-lonely-doug-the-story-of-one-of-canadas-last-great-trees-9781487003111","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}