This is a great work by Mr. Little. I have learned something each time I have read it (3 or 4)! He does an excellent job of dealing with technical subjects in a very readable narrative manner.

His way of telling the story of the history of modern trails and greenways is inspirational in that it makes you want to go out and really do something in your community. He chronicles several projects with very different origins that all have been successful.

If you are remotely interested in greenways and trails and how projects come together I highly recommend this book.

Jens Jensen's ode to the landscape he loved and enhanced during his lifetime - the prairie. Filled with philosophical musings and selected vignettes from his long career, Jens Jensen writes with ardor about the need to conserve, observe and embrace the natural environment.

hEY, THIS IS A GOOD, NUTRITIOUS READ SPANNING THE MALADIES OF THE AMERICAN FORESTS, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT THE UNBALANCED, CATHARTIC ANECDOTES FROM SIMILAR THINKING CRONIES WEARS ON THE READER AS DOES LITTLE'S DOOMMSDAY DIRGE AND PARANOID ASSESSMENTS OF GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS AS FEAR-WROUGHT STOOGES OF SOME AMERICAN KGB. hE COMES JUST SHORT OF OLIVER STONE IN SPINNING ACID RAIN, FOREST FIRE SUPPRESSION,TEARY EYED STORIES OF , THE DOOMED HEMLOCKS, THE DOOMED MAPLES,CRITICAL MASS DOOING THE REST OF HIS TREE FRIENDS--AND, OH YES, PEOPLE TOO. HIS ONLY CONCESSION TO HALF-FULL GLASS IS IN THE PENULTIMATE CHAPTER ON THE TREE SAVERS AND THEIR EFFORTS (WHICH HE DISSASSEMBLES AS FAULTED, OF COURSE) TO RESSURECT THE FOREST .lITTLE FINISHES ON FAMILIAR GROUND, DONNING RACHEL CARSON'S MOURNING ROBES AND DRIVING OFF INTO THE SUNSET IN HIS CO2 BURNING AUTO JUST LIKE THE REST OF US HEATHENS.

This book has vital information that we need to take into considerstion as we look at today's environmental situation. He is rather pessimistic, understandibly so, and sad about the state of the forests in America let alone the rest of the world. Things look grim and he gives a very good case for seeing it that way. It is strange and kind of eerie that Little gives almost no solution to this problem and that any solution is almost hopeless. Everyone likes to think that they have all the answers a lot of times. Like Rachel Carson having all these nice solutions to the problem of pesticides at the end of her book. Some of them were definately helpful but despite her warnings there is over twice the pesticide use as there was in 1962. I guess Little is telling us to get real. There is no simple answer to these problems and any complex answer is almost never put into action. The corporate world isn't about to do anything for the environment unless it is economically profitable and what's the chance of that happening? Unless we come up with energy which doesn't pollute a lot faster than what people are forcasting soon, we are in trouble. That is basically what he is saying. I think he got a little too upset about the government's denial and corporate denial about the issues. It doesn't seem to help much by getting ourselves all upset by others problems and obstacles in our fight to save the trees. In this regard I thought he should have remained a bit more objective and not let them get to him the way he did.

Little painted vived portraits of the death of America's most precious and valuable forests. This book will bring you to tears as you learn about the plight of the woodlands that we brought on them ourselves. This story is not sugar-coated in the least.

Photographers: note the photos, and the stark parallel images of trees versus factory stacks. They make the point of the entire book in dramatic thought-provoking images that make you want to go out and stop every smoke-producer in the world.