Hard Chance: Tree Farming in Troubled Times

Hard Chance: Tree Farming in Troubled Times by Peter Pfeiffer. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781633810204.

Hard Chance seeks to explain both the how and the why of becoming an independent tree farmer in northern Maine. The how addresses the dangerous challenges of a solo logging operation as well as how to make a living working in harmony with the forest. The why includes a history of the local back-to-the-land movement during the turbulent 1970s and the subsequent satisfactions of living in a backwoods community.