BIG LONELY DOUG

BIG LONELY DOUG is the story of a Douglas fir tree that stands the height of a twenty-story apartment building, and whose unlikely survival has shone a spotlight on the logging industry and the fraught future of our ancients forests.

As one of Canada's largest trees, Big Lonely Doug would have fetched more than fifty thousand dollars if milled. But he wasn't, and the story of how he was left to stand alone in the clearing is narrative non-fiction at its finest and most important.

In the vein of the surprise international bestseller HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES by Peter Wohleben, BIG LONELY DOUG expertly weaves the legend of the West Coast's big trees, First Nations land and resource rights, ecotourism and the turbulence of the logging industry around the story of a logger who saved Big Lonely Doug.

BIG LONELY DOUG is a must-read for lovers of narrative non-fiction and popular science in particular, although it will indeed speak to the inner environmentalist in all of us.