Nerd alert: my first book of 2023 is a non-fiction work about the history of the American White Pine and its evolution through colonialism and climate change.

When I tell you I enjoyed this *so much* I mean it. Pastor takes readers through the use of the white pine as ship masts, houses, barns, and its subsequent decimation, then journeys through the CCC renewal projects and the white pine ecosystem, the controversial existence of Smokey the Bear, and on to modern day legacy old growth forests that are few and far between.