Two Billion Trees and Counting: The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz
Language: English
Published by Dundurn, Toronto, 2011
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8vo. 274 pp., b/w photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) held the positions of chief forester of Ontario, deputy minister of forests, and director of reforestation. The appendix is a chronology of his life. Cover shows slight wear to corners.
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- Title
- Two Billion Trees and Counting: The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz
- Author
- Bacher, John
- Publisher
- Dundurn, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1459701119
- ISBN 13
- 9781459701113
- Edition
- First Edition
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Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Book Award
Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing farmlands and towns. Sites like the Oak Ridges Moraine were well on their way to becoming a dust bowl and all because of extensive deforestation.
Zavitz held the positions of chief forester of Ontario, deputy minister of forests, and director of reforestation. His first pilot reforestation project was in 1905, and since then Zavitz has educated the public and politicians about the need to protect Ontario forests. By the mid-1940s, conservation authorities, provincial nurseries, forestry stations, and bylaws protecting trees were in place. Land was being restored.
Just a month before his death, the one billionth tree was planted by Premier John Robarts. Some two billion more would follow. As a result of Zavitz’s work, the Niagara Escarpment, once a wasteland, is now a UNESCO World Biosphere. Recognition of the ongoing need to plant trees to protect our future continues as the legacy of Edmund Zavitz.
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About the Author
Ken Armson is a professional forester who taught and conducted research in forestry at the University of Toronto for 26 years. He has a special interest in forest history and retired from the role of Ontario's Provincial Forester in 1989. He is the author of Ontario Forests: A Historical Perspective, published in 2001.
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