Environmentalist, Teacher, Author

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Crosscut

A Family Story in Five Forests

A dramatic intertwined story about people and forests, tracing eighteen generations of the author’s ironworking forbears through centuries of destroying Europe and colonial America’s largest forests.

Crosscut: A Family Story in Five Forests

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