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Harley Rustad
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Senior editor @thewalrus.ca: [email protected]
Author of LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH (2022) and BIG LONELY DOUG (2018)
Founder @portrenfrewwritersretreat.com

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HARLEY RUSTAD — Book: Big Lonely Doug
Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees
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November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Peter Wohlleben - The Hidden Life of Trees Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration that he has observed in his woodland. Harley Rustad - Big Lonely Doug On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words "Leave Tree." The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region's dwindling old-growth forests. Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
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