A Good Forest for Dying
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| Management number | 5859253 | Release Date | 2025/08/21 | List Price | $15.00 | Model Number | 5859253 | ||
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Bound galley - uncorrected proof
Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost immediately turned farcically tragic. A. E. Ammons, a logger for Pacific Lumber, confronted the group, threatening them in an obscenity-ridden diatribe: if they didn't leave "I'll make sure I got a tree comin' this way!" The group retreated, moving deeper into the wilderness. A short time later, just as they were attempting to confront the logger yet again, Gypsy was dead, crushed to death by a tree Ammons felled.
A GOOD FOREST FOR DYING traces the long history of bitter clashes between environmental concerns and economic interests in the American West and shows why these tensions came to a head in northern California in the 1990s. It tells the story of how Pacific Lumber, once an environmentally friendly, fa
| Category | Books > Fiction Books > Literary Fiction Books |
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| Size | N/A |
| Brand | Doubleday |
| Condition | Good |
Literary Fiction Books
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