A review by lfro2013
Elderflora by Jared Farmer

informative sad slow-paced

3.5

I probably should have known a book explicitly about old growth trees would be 1) sad and 2) dense but I didn't know it would be this sad or this dense! Every chapter repeats a similar story: colonists/scientists/capitalists discover super old trees; they cut nearly all of them down; people realize this is bad; it's too late to fix anything. He tries to sound positive towards the end but it's mostly pretty sad!!