reforestation

"A true story about when the author was a little girl and she and her family traveled to Canada to help plant trees to replace ones that had been removed by loggers"--Provided by publisher.

This title explores how wildfires have changed over time, as well as the effects of climate change, human development, and human actions to reduce or prevent such fires.

Presents a history of the public works program called the Civilian Conservation Corp, including how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they did. The text also explains how the camps and work sites were run, how enrollees spent their leisure time, and how the second World War brought the end of the program, and how it gave birth to contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.