The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

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Monday, July 23 through Friday, August 10, 2007. Read by Karl Schmidt.

“There was only one giant golden spruce in the world, and, until a man named Grant Hadwin took a chainsaw to it, in 1997, it had stood for more than three hundred years in a steadily shrinking patch of old-growth forest in Port Clements, on the banks of the Yakoun River, in the Queen Charlotte’s Islands.”

(Norton; ISBN: 0393328643)

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