Lyndsie Bourgon Last updated May 28, 2025 Life Bourgon was born in Calgary , Alberta, and raised in the small border town of Milk River, Alberta . [ 3]
As an undergraduate at the University of King's College she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Watch, and she held internships and fellowships with CBC News , the Canadian Press , the World University Service of Canada , and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre . [ 4] [ 5]
She has written for Canadian publications including Maisonneuve , [ 6] Hazlitt , [ 7] and The Walrus , [ 8] and has been nominated for two Canadian National Magazine Awards. [ 9] In 2012 she lived in an off-the-grid cabin along the North Beach of Haida Gwaii , during which she wrote about Haida artifact repatriation, traditional carving, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline . [ 10] [ 11]
In 2017, she graduated from the University of St Andrews with a degree in environmental history and oral history. [ 12] Her oral history work focuses on traditional land use studies in rural and difficult-to-access regions, such as the Shetland islands in northern Scotland, the Peruvian Amazon , and communities in northern Canada. [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] Her interviews with the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc [ 16] influenced the community's response to the search for unmarked burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School . Her expertise has been drawn upon by the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada agencies. She has presented her work to audiences at the University of Oxford and Yale University , as well as the Oral History Society and Forest History Society . [ 17] [ 18]
Books In June 2022, Bourgon's first book, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods , was published by Little, Brown Spark (US), Greystone Books (Canada), and Hodder & Stoughton (UK). [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] Tree Thieves examines the history of poaching and investigates timber theft in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. It received favorable reviews in The New York Times , [ 22] the San Francisco Chronicle , [ 23] Science , [ 24] The London Telegraph , The Times Literary Supplement , [ 25] and on NPR's Science Friday . It was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. [ 26] In 2023, Bourgon wrote about the death of one of her sources for the Guardian. [ 27]
Tree Thieves was nominated for the PEN America /Kenneth R. Galbraith Non-Fiction Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize , the Banff Mountain Film Festival Environmental Literature Award, the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, and received an honourable mention for the Society of Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. [ 19] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] Since publication, it has been chosen by The Guardian as one of the five best books about trees. [ 31]
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