The Wolverine WayDouglas Chadwick278 pages, hardcover: $25.95.Patagonia Books, 2010. Wolverines do not have a romantic history. Early trappers and pioneers loathed these carnivores for their elusive, gnarly behavior. Tall tales were told about vicious, crotchety beasts hunting humans in the woods, and by the early part of the 20th century, traps and poisons had ravaged […]
Brian Park
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Nonprofits reap the profits
Green, Inc. – An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone BadChristine MacDonald288 pages, hardcover: $24.95.The Lyons Press, 2008. Inflated executive salaries. Top brass hobnobbing at expensive getaways. Questionable side deals negotiated with no concern for the everyday folks affected by them. These problems aren’t just native to Wall Street. They also occur […]
Posted inDecember 22, 2008: What a mess
Fighting for forests
Arthur Carhart: Wilderness ProphetTom Wolf294 pages, hardcover: $34.95.University Press of Colorado, 2008. A fiery conservationist who came of age in the late 1910s, Arthur Carhart had a penchant for highlighting the contradictions in the environmental movement, not to mention the conflicts of interest at the U.S. Forest Service, which employed him at a young age. […]