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“The Forest” by Roger Caras is now available on cartridge and for download on BARD, the Braille and Audio Reading Download service. BARD is a service offered by the Nebraska Library Commission Talking Book and Braille Service and the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress.

Roger A. Caras, the celebrated commentator for ABC-TV News and author of nature books, takes us deep into a forest in the Pacific Northwest to inspect the secrets of its luxuriant life and the teeming network of insects and animals nurtured by it. But the complex ecosystem represented by these western hemlocks and Douglas firs is vanishing. Caras observes that through harvesting and blight the world has been losing its forestlands at the rate of about 150 acres every minute, and the rate is accelerating. The birthright that we are rapidly throwing away is fully, memorably portrayed in The Forest.

TBBS borrowers can request “The Forest” DBC02208 or download it from the National Library Service BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) website. If you have high-speed internet access, you can download books to your smartphone or tablet, or onto a flash drive for use with your player. You may also contact your reader’s advisor to have the book mailed to you on cartridge.