Description: Please read full description for shipping warning Tongass Pulp Politics Fight For Alaska Rain Forest Kathie Durbin 2nd Ed Loggers Description 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 bring sanity an sustainability to management of the Tongass. In her insighful account of Alaska's era of pulp, award-winning jounalist Kathie Durbin draws on the voices of the people most affected: independent loggers who fought back when the pulp companies conspired to drive them out of business; courageous biologists who warned that logging was destroying critical fish and wildlife habital; Tlingit Indians who saw their traditional hunting grounds vanish; young activists and lawyers who found their lives trasformed by the battle for the Alaska rain forest. In this new edition, Durbin updates the story of the Tongass with a chapter describing political and economic development since 1999. Among the changes; a dramatic growth in cruise ship toursim, a new governor's plan for a system of roads and bridges to link remote Southeast Alaska communities, and a renewed push by the Forest Service under a timber-friendly administration in Washington, D.C., to open vast roadless areas to logging. Yet the fightfor the Alaska rain forest is becoming a broader movement as appreciation for the true value of the regions's wilderness grows. Please look at the photos and read the listing. What you see is what you get. If it's not shown in the photos or described in the listing, then that object is not included. VISIT MY EBAY STORE FOR MORE GREAT FINDS & DEALS!! Shipping is via your choice of USPS Priority or Media Mail (Economy Shipping). Please note that Media Mail can take 3-5 WEEKS to reach the Lower 48 States from ALASKA, as it travels by barge to Seattle First. Priority Mail takes 3-5 Days This item comes from a pet-filled, loving home. My items come from a variety of places and may have lived in a smoking home at some point (this includes my recycled packing supplies as well). It may also smell of cleaning solution, laundry detergent, and/or dryer sheets. Click image to enlarge Payment Items may be returned for any reason. Refund will be given upon receipt, excluding shipping. Sorry, no partial refunds. Item MUST be returned for refund. This item comes from a pet-filled, loving home. My items come from a variety of places and may have lived in a smoking home at some point (this includes my recycled packing supplies as well). Shipping SHIPPING WARNING: Media Mail will take 3-5 WEEKS to reach the Lower 48 States from Alaska, as it travels by barge to Seattle First. Priority Mail is an option for most books lots & takes 5-7 days. Sorry, no International shipping for book lots. APO/FPO/ Military orders are welcome ~ shipping rates to these addresses are the same as the stated domestic rates. Terms of Sale Items may be returned for any reason. Refund will be given upon receipt, excluding shipping. Sorry, no partial refunds. Item MUST be returned for refund. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image HostingCreate your brand with Auctiva's Customizable Templates. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
End Time: 2024-12-03T07:40:00.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Edition: 2
Book Title: Tongass, Second Edition : Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oregon STATE University Press
Topic: Agriculture / Forestry, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2005
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Technology & Engineering
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Kathie Durbin
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
