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The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. See what environmental reading you'll want on your nightstand next and hear from the first-place winner.

To someone brought up on the dry, flat, windblown prairies of Southern Alberta, the damp and fecund old-growth forests of British Columbia symbolize a mythical, misty past. So, in 2012, when Albertan Lyndsie Bourgon first heard of the illegal felling of an 800-year-old red cedar in Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island, she says, “It really