Thieving Trees #610

September 26, 2022

The word "poaching" conjures images of elephants, tigers and pangolins. But there's a multi-billion dollar industry in poaching...trees. It might seem ok at first, trees grow back right? But it's so much more complicated than that. Today we're talking with Lyndsie Bourgon about her new book Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods.

Guests:

  • Lyndsie Bourgon

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Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

Written by Lyndsie Bourgon

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Guest Bios

Lyndsie Bourgon

Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, and 2018 National Geographic Explorer. She writes about the environment and its entanglement with history, culture, and identity, and her features have been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Guardian, the Oxford American, Aeon, The Walrus, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. In 2018, she traveled to Peru with National Geographic to document indigenous experiences of timber theft.

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