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Widick, Richard.

Trouble in the forest : California's redwood timber wars / Richard Widick. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. - xxiv, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Power and resistance in redwood country: Maxxam versus the forest defense -- Convoking the opposition: one year and counting in the branches of Luna -- Everybody needs a home: speaking up for workers, owners, and the company town of Scotia -- Indian trouble: the colonizing culture of capitalism -- Labor trouble: capitalism, work, and resistance in the redwoods -- Trouble in the forest: Earth First!, Redwood Summer, and the alliance to save Headwaters.

ISBN: 9780816653249 (hc : alk. paper) 0816653240 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816653256 (pb : alk. paper) 0816653259 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009028397

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA982814 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmentalism--Social aspects--California.
Forest conservation--Citizen participation.--California
Redwood industry--Social aspects--California.
Logging--California.
Ecoterrorism--California.
Anti-environmentalism--California.

LC Class. No.: GE198.C2 / W53 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7509794 577