The author has been a forester for about sixty years, although for the last twenty nobody has paid him for the work he continues to do locally on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, where he lives. ...ver másThe author has been a forester for about sixty years, although for the last twenty nobody has paid him for the work he continues to do locally on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, where he lives. Prior that he led a rather peripatetic career involved with managing forests and planting trees in numerous countries in Africa and Asia as well as Australia and Canada. But his real passion has been working with the people who rely at least to some degree on trees and forests for their livelihoods, and who have taken on the protection and management of these forests, very often successfully, though not always.ver menos