GREEN HORIZONS, The Forests and Foresters of Nova Scotia, by Jim Lotz (2005 1st Ed.)

Author: Jim Lotz. Published by Pottersfield Press, Lawrencetown, NS., 2005, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with several pages showing ink underlining, see photos, otherwise clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 228 pages.

In GREEN HORIZONS, veteran journalist Jim Lotz tells the history of how the forests of Nova Scotia have been both ravaged, and occasionally preserved, over the centuries.

It begins with the Mi’kmaq people who relied on the woods for game and useful products. Green Horizons then traces the history of the forests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the ethic of “cut and run” ran rampant, destroying huge numbers of trees as did massive forest fires. The story moves on to the time of saw millers who “took the best and left the rest.” Green Horizons also recounts the history of the past 50 years in Nova Scotia’s forests through interviews of those directly involved in forestry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jim Lotz, born in Liverpool, England in 1929, has held 25 different jobs ranging from grouse beater in the Scottish Highlands to glacial meteorologist in the Arctic. Coming to Canada in 1954...he has been actively engaged in community-based development and has taught at the Coady International Institute. His travels in search of learning have taken him from Alaska to Slovakia and from the High Arctic to Lesotho. He has written 20 books.