Grant Hadwin was doing the right thing; he just went about it in a spectacularly wrong way. It turns out that we humans are pretty good at that. Learn the tragic story of the Golden Spruce, and three critical pieces of wisdom that will help you avoid making the same sort of stupid mistakes.
Much of the above podcast and corresponding YouTube video content comes from John Vaillant’s fantastic book, The Golden Spruce. The book is more than just a sad story; it is a gripping tutorial on colonialism, the fur trade, the logging industry, indigenous history and mental illness. I read it while on holidays, and was thankful for the long plane ride, because I did not want to put it down.
