Shadows on the Klamath : a woman in the woods / Louise Wagenknecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagenknecht, Louise, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wagenknecht, Louise, 1949-.

Wagenknecht, Louise.

United States. Forest Service--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

United States. Forest Service.

Forest rangers--Montana--Glacier National Park--Biography.

Forest rangers.

Klamath National Forest (Calif. and Or.)--History.

Klamath National Forest (Calif. and Or.).

Employees.

Montana--Glacier National Park.

United States--Klamath National Forest.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In 1973, Louise Wagenknecht was just another college graduate, but unlike many, she wanted to go home, back to the Klamath Mountains where she was raised. When a job offer from the Klamath National Forest gave her that chance, she jumped at it. She landed in the logging town of Happy Camp, where she'd spent part of her childhood, as chronicled in her previous memoirs, White Poplar, Black Locust and Light on the Devils. With Shadows on the Klamath, Louise Wagenknecht completes her trilogy about life in remote northwestern California. In this new work, she recounts her years in the Forest Service, starting as a clerical worker on the Klamath National Forest before moving to a field position where she did everything from planting trees to fighting fires. Her story is about a Forest Service in transition, as forest management practices began to shift. Not least among these changes was the presence of women in the ranks-a change that many in the Forest Service resisted. Wagenknecht blends the personal and professional to describe land management in the West and the people who do it-their friendships, rivalries, and rural communities. Anyone with an interest in the Klamath-Siskiyou region, or the history of women in natural resource agencies, or the many issues associated with industrial forestry, should read this book for its valuable firsthand perspective. General readers interested in the rural West and personal memoir will also be richly rewarded"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I

1. Line and Staff

2. Silviculls

3. Strangers in the Forest

4. All the Waters Run South

5. Herbicides

6. Alice

7. Put Me In, Coach

8. The Class of '78

9. Breaking Up

10. Out of the Frying Pan

Part II

11. Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Plumbing

12. We Survived the Five

13. A Journey to the Coast

14. Herbicides Redux

15. The Man in Joe Sino's House

16. The Red Queens Race

17. Klamath Weed

18. Crew Boss

19. Years of the Ski

20. Nigel

21. Getting Out

22. Looking Back

23. Burning Tom Martins

24. Moving On

25. Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780870711565

0870711563

OCLC:

1249090323