Fellow activist Guy Dauncey has likened Paul George's history of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Big Trees Not Big Stumps (WCWC $39.95) as "the War & Peace of the B.C. environmental movement."; Given Tolstoy's own radicalism as a campaigner for minority interests, he might have approved of such hyperbole, as well as George's tireless role as a defender of nature. "If this book motivates even one person who has never experienced the mystic nature of wild places like Gwaii Haanas, Stein Valley, Carmanah Valley or Clayoquot Sound to be trekking gently through some wilderness,"; says Paul George, "I'll consider the book a success."; 1-895123-03-8

[BCBW 2006]