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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2010.Edition: 1st University of Washington Press pbk. ed. / with a new preface and afterwordDescription: 336 pages : maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780295990620
  • 0295990627
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SD387.O43 D52 2010
Contents:
The cutter -- The biologist -- the opening in the trees -- The owl -- The town -- The guru -- The industry -- the truckers -- The environmentalist -- Nobody to blame -- the forester -- the candidate -- A name for the trees -- Refusing to lose -- The empty mill -- Sanctuary, I -- Sanctuary, II -- Epilogue: the final forest.
Summary: "Before 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."--Pub. desc.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Pacific Northwest Connections Collection SB455.5 .D54 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800178378
Total holds: 0

"Originally published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster."

Includes index.

The cutter -- The biologist -- the opening in the trees -- The owl -- The town -- The guru -- The industry -- the truckers -- The environmentalist -- Nobody to blame -- the forester -- the candidate -- A name for the trees -- Refusing to lose -- The empty mill -- Sanctuary, I -- Sanctuary, II -- Epilogue: the final forest.

"Before 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."--Pub. desc.

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