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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich

The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich

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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich

ISBN: 0295990627    EAN: 9780295990620
US SRP: $19.95 US 
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2010
Pub Date: November 01, 2010
Physical Info: 0.79" H x 8.95" L x 6.09" W (1.04 lbs) 336 pages

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.

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. 

Review Quotes:

"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

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