Lots of artistic licence here. Ok, it's a nice book, but it's fiction and fact. Like a nice film about a factually boring event meant to sound exciting. No offense, I'm a lifelong Forester too. Some of the science is good, but trees are not people. The real tragedy is that the trees need to be artificially personified for average joe to not want to destroy them. Trees good, people bad. That's why trees are not people. X