Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land. (Books: obscure beauty).The Willapa Hills of Washington may not be the Olympic Mountains or the Cascade Crest, but for author Robert Michael Pyle, they are beautiful and enticing. In Wintergreen wintergreen or checkerberry, low evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), native to sandy and acid woods (usually of evergreens) of E North America and frequently cultivated. : Rambles in a Ravaged rav·age v. rav·aged, rav·ag·ing, rav·ages v.tr. 1. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate: A tornado ravaged the town. 2. Land (Sasquatch Books, $16.95), Pyle tells of his love for a land doomed to destruction by logging companies and paints a clear picture of what's left behind. The book takes a close look at the wildlife still found in the Willapas, measures the impact of forestry and logging companies, and it marvels at the struggle to survive in a land devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by resource extraction. This book will compel readers to reexamine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines 1. To examine again or anew; review. 2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination. their assumptions about the resiliency of nature. --C.H. |
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