The final forest : big trees, forks, and the Pacific Northwest / William Dietrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dietrich, William, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old growth forests--Northwest, Pacific.

Old growth forests.

Old growth forest conservation--Northwest, Pacific.

Old growth forest conservation.

Logging--Northwest, Pacific.

Logging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

2010 ed. / with a new preface and afterword.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now.For more information on the author to to: http://williamdietrich.com/

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface, 2010: Twilight Town

Introduction: The Last Corner

1. The Cutter

2. The Biologist

3. The Opening in the Trees

4. The Owl

5. The Town

6. The Guru

7. The Industry

8. The Truckers

9. The Environmentalist

10. Nobody to Blame

11. The Forester

12. The Candidate

13. A Name for the Trees

14. Refusing to Lose

15. The Empty Mill

16. Sanctuary, I

17. Sanctuary, II

18. Epilogue: The Final Forest

Afterword, 2010

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster."

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780295802251

0295802251

OCLC:

742517272