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Foresters, Borders, and Bark BeetlesThe Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest\nAuthor(s): Eunice Blavascunas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253049582, 978-0253049582\nSynopsis\nIn Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks, woodland bison, and thousands of species of insects and fungi collides with authoritarian and communist histories. \n Foresters, biologists, environmentalists, and locals project the ancientBia?owie?aForest as a series of competing icons in struggles over memory, land, and economy, which are also struggles about whether to log or preserve the woodland; whether and how to celebrate the mixed ethnic Polish/Belarusian peasant past;and whether to align this eastern outpost with ultraright Polish political parties, neighboring Belarus, or the European [url] Blavascunas provides an intimate ethnographic account, gathere.