The Final Forest

Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest

William Dietrich

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University of Washington Press
01 July 2011

History of the Americas; Forestry & related industries; Forests, rainforests; Management of land & natural resources; Travel & holiday guides

Series: The Final Forest

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/

By: William Dietrich
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780295990620
ISBN 10: 0295990627
Series: The Final Forest
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 July 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest

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