Download or read book In Service of The Wild written by Stephanie Mills and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Service of the Wild begins and ends on the author's home ground, thirty-five acres of farmed-out land now planted in Scotch pine monoculture. Mills imagines her northern Michigan landscape from its barren glaciated past to its climax as maplebeech hardwood forest to the ways in which logging, slash fires, and agriculture transformed the Northwoods ecology. With her trademark humor and humility, Mills invites the reader along as she learns to dig up, plant anew, and generally to assist the regenerative processes of time and nature.