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In timber country : working people's stories of environmental conflict and urban flight / Beverly A. Brown.
Van Pelt Library HN79.O72 R633 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Beverly A., 1951 February 21-
- Series:
- Conflicts in urban and regional development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green movement.
- Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects.
- Forests and forestry.
- Urban-rural migration.
- Working class.
- Interviews.
- Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.)--Rural conditions.
- Working class--Oregon--Rogue River Valley--Interviews.
- Urban-rural migration--Oregon--Rogue River Valley.
- Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects--Oregon--Rogue River Valley.
- Green movement--Oregon--Rogue River Valley.
- Oregon--Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Southwest Oregon embodies the fast-changing social and environmental trends of the Pacific Northwest. This book analyzes the subsequent transformation of the region. Working-class men and women describe a segregation of private forest lands and waterways where people could once move freely, they are boxed in by fences and No Trespassing signs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1566392721
- 156639273X
- OCLC:
- 30593422
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