World Without Trees

Publisher:  Paddington Presstd, New York, USA
Year Published:  1979
Pages:  223pp   ISBN:  0-448-22619-7
Library of Congress Number:  QK477.L32   Dewey:  582'.16
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7760

Lamb says that "there is one thing of which you can be absolutely certain: if things go one as they are, some day the sun will rise on a world without trees. That day is closer than you think."

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Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Wooden Dinosaurs
2. Trees and the Quantity of Life
3. Portrait of a Tree
4. Disease Despite Itself
5. America's Little Hatchet
6. Fall into Winter
7. Shadows on the Forest
8. Death of Hedgerows
9. Who Needs Wood?
10. A Future for Elms … and for All Trees

Footnotes
Appendix: Organizations Currently Involved with Tree Conservation
Bibliography
Index

Subject Headings

• Forest Ecology
• Forests
• Trees