Inside Forestry 38.1

Editorial: May the Forest Be With You
Nicola Ross

Letters to the Editor: 38.1
Perverse City author-reviewer debate.

Footprint in Mouth
Gareth Lind
Gravelstock - stop the mega-potato farms in Melancthon.

In Brief
Frack Job, Gravel's Gavel, Gizmos Suck, Local Prohibition

Brain Mulch
Ryan David Kennedy
Smokin' Diva: Tobacco's attempt to re-invent herself hasn't impressed Fair Trade organizations. They want no part of her deforesting ways.

All Sizzle, No Stake
Jeff Gailus
Parks Canada's 100th birthday may have been celebrated in Canada's uncritical media, but that doesn't mean our national parks are in good shape.

Winners
Breath-taking, prize-winning photography that commemorates the UN International Year of Forests.

The Beetle's Wake
Andrew Nikiforuk
Selective logging of dead pine could have prevented much of the industrial mayhem, but it would have cost industry a few dollars more.

Wealth in the Woods
Anne Munier
Six non-timber products that feed hundreds of millions of dollars into the forest economy.

Seeing Beyond the Trees
Nicola Ross
An exclusive interview with Linda Coady about business, equity and the new forestry.

Half-Time Report
Tenille Bonoguore
To give the Boreal Agreement staying power, industry, government and NGOs will need to learn and even trade each other's roles.

10 Most Threatened Forest Hotspots
Conservation International photo essay places the importance of forests right next to foreboding statistics on habitat loss.

AtwoodVille
Margaret Atwood turns to an Internet game called FrontierVille to describe our disintegrating relationship with nature and what the greenbelt movement can do to improve it.

Keepers
Brenlee Robinson
New legislation allows you to designate heritage trees.

The Challenge
Nicola Ross
From the bow seat of a canoe in the NWT's Mackenzie watershed, Alternatives editor-in-chief Nicola Ross explores the relationship between knowing a landscape and protecting it.

The Energy Matrix
Andrew Nikiforuk
Carbon Capture + Stupidity Alberta's silver bullet is an energy dead-end that creates more problems than it solves.

In Review: Strength in Numbers
Catherine Leviten-Reid
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, John Restakis, reviewed by Catherine Leviten-Reid

In Review: Fixed Metaphors
Emily McMillan
Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability, Brendon Larson, reviewed by Emily McMillan

What's the Big Idea?
Robert Gibson
Co-evolution Not much happens by itself.