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It has often been said that natural resource and environmental problems cannot be solved without solving human problems. In this book, Matthew Carroll examines the economic and social circumstances of northwestern U.S. loggers in the face of shifts in environmental politics, dramatic reductions in timber harvest levels on federal lands, and changing technology and market forces—among other factors that are rapidly transforming their industry, their livelihoods, and their communities. Drawing upon sociological fieldwork in logging communities that he conducted at various times over a period...

Robin Fitzhood returns from the Crusade to find England a very different place from when he left. With King Richard being held hostage, Prince John schemes with the Sheriff of Nottingham to claim the throne. Robin quickly runs afoul of the law and takes refuge in Sherwood Forest where he brings the fight to John. But Prince John and the Sheriff are not Robin's only worries. A powerful necromancer also seeks the throne and brings an unholy threat to England.

Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for future catastrophic fires. Forest settings are a magnet for recreational opportunities and for rapidly growing residential developmentputting an increasing number of citizens and their property into the path of wildfires. Recordsetting wildfires initiated the twentyfirst century and motivated the rise to prominence of wildfire on the political agenda, prompting important and farreaching new public policy initiatives. To be effective, these policies must be informed by sciencebut that...