The Final Forest
Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-295-99062-0 (ISBN)
Description
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
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.
For more information on the author to to: http://williamdietrich.com/
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
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.
For more information on the author to to: http://williamdietrich.com/
Reviews / Votes
"Dietrich presents in an easy-to-read narrative style the point of view of various participants in this war, from the logger whose way of life is threatened to a biologist concerned with saving the Northern spotted owl. Highly recommended."(Library Journal) "This is a mesmerizing story of the complexity of the relationships between forests and people that at once honors the uniqueness of places while spanning universal themes."
(BC Studies) "A remarkably readable and lucid account."
(Audubon Magazine) "Time has brought 'The Final Forest' acclaim as a realistic portrayal of a critical era for the West End communities."
(Living on the Peninsula) "The best book about the environment that I've read in a year."
(Newsday) "Dietrich's 1992 account of the timber wars on the Olympic Peninsula has been updated with a new preface and afterword that explains what some of the main characters have been up to and explores the irony of Forks, Wash., becoming an international destination as a result of the Twilight series."
(The Oregonian)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-99062-0 (9780295990620)
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E-Book
07/2011
1st Edition
University of Washington Press
€19.49
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Person
William Dietrich , a former science writer for the Seattle Times, is the author of Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River and Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants, as well as popular fiction.Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Content
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
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