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Strong Winds and Widow Makers

Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber
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Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber-working communities have concerned themselves with the health and future of the woods surrounding them. Life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that nurtured a deep sense of place in workers, their families, and their communities. This sense of place in turn shaped ideas about protection that sometimes clashed with the views of environmentalists--or the desires of employers. Beda's sympathetic, in-depth look at the human beings whose lives are embedded in the woods helps us understand that timber communities fought not just to protect their livelihood, but because they saw the forest as a vital part of themselves.
Steven C. Beda is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon.
Introduction: 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
"Part cultural criticism, part journalistic advocacy, this timely book offers an invaluable historical account of the changing class relationships in the Northwest woods and the growing cultural and political rift between those who live there and those who live in the region's cities."--Lawrence M. Lipin, author of Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
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