Trouble in the forest : California's redwood timber wars / Richard Widick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widick, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Social aspects--California.

Environmentalism.

Forest conservation--California--Citizen participation.

Forest conservation.

Redwood industry--Social aspects--California.

Redwood industry.

Logging--California.

Logging.

Ecoterrorism--California.

Ecoterrorism.

Anti-environmentalism--California.

Anti-environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological preservation. In Trouble in the Forest, Richard Widick narrates the long and bloody history of this hostility and demonstrates how it exemplifies the key contemporary challenge facing the modern societies-the collision of capitalism, ecology, and social justice.An innovative blend of social history, cultural theory, and ethnography, Trouble in the For

Contents:

Power and resistance in redwood country: Maxxam versus the forest defense

Convoking the opposition: one year and counting in the branches of Luna

Everybody needs a home: speaking up for workers, owners, and the company town of Scotia

Indian trouble: the colonizing culture of capitalism

Labor trouble: capitalism, work, and resistance in the redwoods

Trouble in the forest: Earth First!, Redwood Summer, and the alliance to save Headwaters.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7076-5

OCLC:

646816264