Trouble in the forest
Subtitle: California's redwood timber wars
By: Richard Widick.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780816653249; 9780816653256
Subjects: Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- California; Forest conservation -- California -- Citizen participation; Redwood industry -- Social aspects -- California; Logging -- California; Ecoterrorism -- California; Anti-environmentalism -- California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power and resistance in redwood country: Maxxam versus the forest defense; title: Convoking the opposition: one year and counting in the branches of Luna; title: Everybody needs a home: speaking up for workers, owners, and the company town of Scotia; title: Indian trouble: the colonizing culture of capitalism; title: Labor trouble: capitalism, work, and resistance in the redwoods; title: Trouble in the forest: Earth First!, Redwood Summer, and the alliance to save Headwaters.