April 05, 2024

064 - Lyndsie Bourgon - Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods

59 minutes

A conversation with journalist Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022).

Lyndsie Bourgon is a journalist, author, oral historian, fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and National Geographic Explorer. Her work intersects the environment, history, culture, identity, and more and has appeared in venues such as National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, The Atlantic, The Walrus, The Guardian, and others. Many of those pieces were winners of or finalists for awards and honors. Her book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022) has received considerable positive press and the following honors:

Long-listed: The PEN America/Kenneth R. Galbraith Award for Non-fiction

Short-listed: The Columbia University/Nieman Foundation J. Anthony Lukas Award

Finalist: The 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Environmental Literature Award

Honourable Mention: The Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Finalist: The BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award

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Podcast Notes:

Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink

Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.

Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.

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