John Paul Brandt Books

A young, English girl is forced to leave her hometown in England after a tragic death in her family. Leaving her beloved bulldog King Orry and ailing mother behind she is forced to cross the Atlantic and is unwittingly accosted by anarchists who are traveling to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In Manchester she meets her Tory leaning relatives who are involved in political intrigue, she experiences ghostly happenings in Salem, and ominous disturbances at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. Ultimately she learns that her French lover has spurned her for another, and is forced to endure amorous attempts by deceitful men, bent on crushing her already broken heart. These and other madcap adventures await Helen Miller as she struggles to adjust to a time when manners are changing, when feminists are on the prowl, when anarchists are out for blood, and when it seems that love is only found in dreams.

The distribution of lodgepole pine and jack pine stands severely damaged by lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium americanum Nutt. Ex Engelm., is described for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The distribution of affected stands is based on aerial and ground surveys of jack (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and lodgepole pone (P. contorta Dougl, ex Loud. var latifolia Engelm.) forests conducted between 1984 and 1996. Depending on method of determination, between 455 000 and 585 000 ha of jack pine forests and 80 000 - 85 000 ha of lodgepole pine forests were severely diseased by dwardf mistletoe. These areas account for about 5% of the total area of pine in the study area. Annual losses due to reductions in growth and tree mortality were estimated at 2 347 000 m3. Most diseased jack pine stands occurred in the Boreal Plains ecozone, while diseased lodgepole pine stands occurred approximately equally in both the Boreal Plains and the Montane Cordillera ecozones. The report includes maps and a CD-Rom containing an Arc/Info export-format file of the coverage of pine areas severely damaged by dwarf mistletoe in west-central Canada.