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“Love Forests? Meet the Authors of ‘Canopy of Titans’” — CANOPY OF TITANS authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate interviewed in The Tyee

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

In Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest, we are offered a timely, welcome and provocative biography of our corner of the world’s greatest assets, our life-affirming forests. We are also served up a gut-wrenching chronicle of how recklessly we have laid, and continue to lay, waste to the richest forest ecosystem on Earth.

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“Why the world’s climate fate could depend on the ‘Amazon of the North’” — CANOPY OF TITANS authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegated featured in Columbia INSIGHT

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, one of the biggest keys to holding back the destructive momentum of global climate change lies in your backyard.

This, anyway, is the conclusion of an absorbing and important new book, Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest.

Early in their book, Portland authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate lay out their case. The vast, unnamed temperate rainforest that stretches some 2,500 miles from northern California through Southeast Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska plays “a crucial role in mitigating human-caused climate change, and no forest is more valuable to the climate than this one.”

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“Telling the Story of Temperate Rainforest Giants” — CANOPY OF TITANS authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate appear on Terra Verde

Friday, March 31st, 2023

 
In this week’s episode of Terra Verde, host Gary Graham Hughes talks with Cascadia Times investigative journalists Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate about their new book, Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest, which celebrates the beauty and complexity of these ecosystems and uncovers how climate policy mechanisms that favor extractive industry are contributing to the ongoing degradation of this amazing rainforest.

Listen to the full episode here.

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