The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed tells the story of a sacred tree, a logger-turned environmentalist and a shocking act of environmental protest in the woods of British ...

This is the second half of an interview with John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce. His book plumbs the mystery of Grant Hadwin, the man who, in 1997, cut down the Golden Spruce, a botanical ...

Turning The Golden Spruce into a documentary was no easy task. The book is rich with historical detail, meticulously setting the scene to tell the true story of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer turned ...

Frank Clifford, the environmental editor for The Times, is the author of "The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide." “The Golden Spruce” is the story of ...

John Vaillant thinks so. That’s why the first-time author spun a New Yorker essay into the recently published The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. Grist thanks its sponsors.

Vancouver writer John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce is an important and gripping book that plumbs the mystery of Grant Hadwin, the man who, in 1997, cut down the Golden Spruce, a strangely beautiful ...

On a chill night in January 1997, a mentally ill logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin swam naked across the Yakoun River in British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands, unpacked a chain saw, and ...

The Golden Spruce is the story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which his act took place. A tree with luminous glowing needles, the ...