Learning from the forest

"People from around the world have visited the foothills near Hinton in northwestern Alberta to absorb the land ethic of the company that took on stewardship of the area's publicly owned forests in 1954. Learning from the Forest is part history of the company (now called Weldwood of Canada, Hinton Division), part forestry survey, and part proposal for the future of silviculture -- the art and science of growing trees. From the outset, the managers of the Hinton forest recognized the challenges of managing forests whose life cycles are measured in centuries. Learning from the Forest describes…