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The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest

by William Dietrich

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Forks and the changing fate of old-growth forests

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner — Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

    Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

  • Editorial selection

    2011 Outstanding Title — University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

    Named a 2011 Outstanding Title.

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Forks and the changing fate of old-growth forests

William Dietrich’s account places Forks, Washington, at the center of a regional conflict over old-growth forests. The town’s history links the timber industry to the changing landscape of the Olympic Peninsula: once known as the “Logging Capital of the World,” Forks later became associated with tourism while remaining a home to people whose livelihoods depend on nearby forests. This edition revisits the timber wars of the early 1990s, tracing changes in forest policy and practices and updating what became of the town and key participants. Its subject connects local economic life with wider debates over forest use and conservation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Pacific Northwest history and communities shaped by natural-resource industries.
  • Readers exploring old-growth forests, conservation, and forest policy.
  • Readers looking for a reported account of the timber conflicts around Forks, Washington.

Themes

Old-growth forestsLogging and local livelihoodsForest policy and conservationChange in Forks, Washington

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Book overview

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

Before Forks, a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed "Logging Capital of the World" and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now.

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