An independent Quebec-based publisher has launched a coffee-table book of stories about the forest, with contributions from two well-known figures in the pulp and paper world: Jean Hamel of FPInnovations and Patrice Mangin of CIPP.
In Once Upon a Forest, twelve experts talk about the various faces of the forest: the Aboriginals' forest, the forest as landscape, the healing forest, paper and the forest, and the forest in the future. The book is beautifully illustrated by the artwork of Marie-Andrée Tardif.
Published by Isabelle Quentin Editeur Inc., the book makes an appropriate gift in this, the International Year of the Forest. It is available through the publisher's web site, http://iqe.qc.ca/, and at www.amazon.ca. It is also published in French, under the title Il était une fois la forêt.