Social Forestry - Tomi Hazel Vaarde

Social Forestry

Tending the Land as People of Place
Buch | Softcover
456 Seiten
2023
Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-957869-06-3 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place is a must-have for anyone wanting to have a reciprocating relationship with their communities, themselves, and most importantly their awe-inspiring forests and landscapes. 

Social Forestry connects villages and communities to their forests and adjoining bodies of water. It includes forest management, protection, and regeneration of deforested lands with the objective of improving the rural, environmental, and social development. Through ecological assessment, carbon sequestration, and generating wildcrafts, people re-establish their wonder in the woods.

Author Tomi Hazel Vaarde, collaborator of Siskiyou Permaculture, uses poetry,  photographs, drawings, and data to outline philosophies and concepts of Social Forestry. By weaving culturally sensitive stories, myths, and lessons from a range of customs and traditions including North American Indigenous communities and Vaarde’s own Quaker upbringing, Vaarde explores how holistic land and community management approaches can facilitate resolution of some of our most dire local and global crises. The writer’s work is critical to overcoming eco-grief while instilling necessary changes to the West Coast landscape for fire mitigation and restoration of complex forest systems for generations to come.



Many indigenous peoples have learned regenerative management by living for generations in and with a sense of place, but few examples of whole-system planning and participation are evident in modern society. Climate adaptation, human survival, and conservation efforts to maintain biodiversity that supports life on Earth require radical, back-to-the-roots grounding and intentional dedication. Social Forestry helps readers remember the ways of the wild while implementing local food production, collaboration with conservation efforts, forest management, and stabilization of headwaters to build resilience for the long term. To live in harmony with our surroundings, we need to re-skill, always remembering those who came before us and acting in ways that honor traditional wisdom of people and place.  

Social Forestry includes 31 4-color posters and 54 images.

Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s.  Their current focus topics are Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah, fuel hazard management, wildcrafting, wildlife conservation and desert forest water management. They have been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years.    After having earned degrees in Forestry and Systematic Botany from Syracuse University and SUNY College of Forestry, 1969, Hazel taught Wild Edible Plants and Woods-lore at Laney College in Oakland CA in the early 70’s. After helping Bill Mollison teach the first Permaculture Design Course at Evergreen State College in 1982, they have been instrumental in teaching and spreading Permaculture practices. Hazel has taught dozens of Permaculture courses over the last 37 years, primarily in Southern Oregon and Northern California. These include the PDC, Permaculture Teachers Training, and advanced courses in Optical Surveying, Social Forestry and Farm Planning. They were a frequent guest instructor for Toby Hemenway PDC’s offered in the Northwest. Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications.  Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. 

Social Forestry: Table of Contents


Acknowledgments by Hazel

Foreword by Starhawk

How to Read Hazel by Megan Fehrman

Principles Clipboard

Introduction to Social Forestry 


Part IFoundations

Chapter 1 Peoples of the Forest

Chapter 2The Lineage

Chapter 3The Nest-Home 

Chapter 4Relationships


Part II In the Forest

Chapter 5      Forest Ecologies 

Chapter 6     Forestry Work 

Chapter 7Fire

Chapter 8Charcoal

Chapter 9Treasures from the Thickets 

Chapter 10Forest Shelters

 

Part III Toward Culture of Place


Chapter 11 Starting from Here

Chapter 12 Transition Cultures

Chapter 13 ​​A Place for Humans

Chapter 14 Social Order

Chapter 15 Carrying the Bundle


Part IV Visioning

Chapter 16  A Year in Wagner County


Index

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Starhawk
Zusatzinfo 31 4 color posters
Verlagsort Santa Fe, NM
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 254 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-957869-06-2 / 1957869062
ISBN-13 978-1-957869-06-3 / 9781957869063
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