Skip to content

From the archives

A Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope

How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Rorke Bryan

Rorke Bryan is a professor emeritus of geography and environmental science and is the former dean of forestry at the University of Toronto. He has specialized in soil erosion and dryland management with extensive field research experience in Alberta, Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico and several Mediterranean countries.

Articles by
Rorke Bryan

Nature's Cathedral

Trees are a special gift, scientifically indispensable and spiritually profound September 2010
Ideally a book will start with a hook that catches readers’ attention. Two of the most arresting opening pages in literature are Karen Blixen’s description of the view looking toward Mount Kilimanjaro from her farm in the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi in Out of Africa and Aldo Leopold’s tale of the environmental history of Wisconsin set against the background of two sawyers slowly working their way through a large oak tree in A Sand County Almanac