THE LIVING LAND: AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. By Roderick Haig-Brown.

1961 1st edition. Large 4to (219 x 280mm). Pp269. Colour photograph plates, colour and b/w illustrations, green monochrome maps, bibliography, pocket containing colour map of British Columbia to rear paste-down.

This book "is intended to stimulate the thinking of British Columbians about the proper use of their rich inheritance of natural resources. It is hoped, also, that the book will serve to advance the cause and the philosophy of conservation among the peoples of the world". The British columbia Natural Resources Conference published the British Columbia Atlas of Natural Resources, "the first such comprehensive natural resources atlas ever published for a province or state". This book is a non-technical companion volume aimed at the lay reader. Detailed and well-illustrated. Chapters include: soil resources; Water and climate; The forests; Harvesting and using wood; Managing the forests; The extent of the resource; Use of the resource; The fossil fuels; Water-power resources; Integration of energy; General inventory of commercial fisheries; The salmons; Salmon management; Mineral resources; Extraction and use of minerals; Recreation - general; Parks and recreational land; Wildlife; Game fish; The pollution story; Transportation; People - aboriginal stock - immigrant stock; Resources, the end product.