Tongass, Second Edition Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest

Name: Tongass, Second Edition Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
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ISBN: 9780870710568

ISBN-10: 0870710567

ISBN-13: 9780870710568

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Kathie Durbin

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Set in Alaska's coastal rain forest, "Tongass is a story by turns dismaying and inspiring, of greed, courage, bare-knuckles politics, and the fate of a remote, wild, beautiful land. After World War II, the U.S. government lured two pulp companies to Southeast Alaska by promising them low-cost timber from the Tongass National Forest, the planet's largest coastal temperate rain forest. The mills bought jobs and growth to a sparsly settled region. They also wreaked ecological havoc and created a timber industry that broke labor unions, drove competitors out of business, and controlled politicians and the U.S. Forest Service. It took a national compaign, led by grassroots environmentalists, to…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100



Prologue



To 1980



The Contracts



The Conservationists



Angoon



The Big Squeeze



Opening Up the Country



The Backroom Deal



1980-1990



Picking Up the Pieces



Coverup



Timber Mining



Union Busting



Confronting the Beast



Smoked Salmon and Alaskan Beer



First Victory



After 1990



Science Unmuzzled



Toxic Behavior



Default



Whistleblowers



Last Assault



Endgame



Hoonah


Epilogue


Five Years After: An Update


Acknowledgments


Sources and Bibliography


Index