‘Eating Dirt’ - thetyee.ca

Hanging on ‘by the fingernails and toe spikes.’ Author Charlotte Gill on the job. Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe Charlotte Gill Greystone Books and David Suzuki Foundation (2011) If you’re a part of the tribe, you know. Maybe you miss the freedom, the dependable cash flow, the wilderness air -- even the look of the cut blocks themselves, sheathed off mountainsides like dog fur. Maybe it was the all-day, all-night whiskey-induced shenanigans (and ensuing “bush goggles”) that kept you coming back each year. Suzuki: Planting Trees Good, But No Global…