Wintergreen (book)
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Wintergreen, written in 1987, is a book by Robert Michael Pyle
. It describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills
. It was also the winner of the John Burroughs
Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.
Robert Michael Pyle
Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist and author who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1974...
. It describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills
Willapa Hills
The Willapa Hills is a geologic, physiographic, and geographic region in southwest Washington. When described as a physiographical province, the Willapa Hills are bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Columbia River to the south, the Olympic Mountains to the north, and the Cascade Range to...
. It was also the winner of the John Burroughs
John Burroughs
John Burroughs was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress,...
Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.