Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Forging Truces in the War in the Woods
This valuable collection of essays offers new perspectives that
recognize the complexity of the issues and the diversity of interests
in forest politics on both sides of the Canada-US border.
La description
In this thoughtful collection of essays edited by Debra J. Salazar and
Donald K. Alper, forest policy in the U. S. Pacific Northwest and
British Columbia is examined in a binational context. While US and
Canadian forest policy and forest management approaches differ, the two
countries face similar challenges and conflicts. Contributors discuss
the evolution of forest exploitation, the response of timber companies
to U. S. federal environmental regulations, sovereignty for First
Nations communities, and the reshaping of the political economy of
forests by global forces on both sides of the border. Groups usually
ignored in the forest policy debate — such as First Nations peoples,
workers in the emerging non-forest economy, and citizen activists —
are also given voice in this fascinating compilation.