Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An illuminating trek into the forests alongside highclimbers and other logging specialists. More importantly, it’s an examination of how politics, corporate boardrooms, and changing social attitudes and technology left many timber workers on the short end of the stick — and where things stand now. For all we who haven’t worked in the woods — and perhaps even for some who have — 'Strong Wind' is a fact-filled guidebook, with something interesting on every page." --
Chinook Observer"Steven Beda's
Strong Winds and Widow Makers is a wide-ranging and well-researched history of labor and the environment in Northwest timber country. . . . Beda presents a more nuanced account of the relationship timber workers have forged with the Northwest forests through several generations of living among them." --
H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Place in the Forest
Part I: Place
Chapter 1. “The New Empire”
Chapter 2. “The Prodigal Yield of the Surrounding Hills”
Chapter 3. “A Goodly Degree of Risk”
Part II: Power
Chapter 4. “Conservation . . . from the Guys Down Below”
Chapter 5. “The Many Uses and Values of Forests”
Part III: Problems
Chapter 6. “Strong Winds and Widow Makers”
Chapter 7. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man”
Chapter 8. “We Keep Carbon-Eating Machines Healthy”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
