From the Redwood Forest : Ancient Trees and the Bottom Line: A Headwaters Journey

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Summary: A journey to the heart of Headwaters
Review: The book begins---- I never intended to get involved with the controversy surrounding the Headwaters Forest, let alone write a book about it. I have always considered myself a naturalist, not an activist---- It then traces my journey deep into a issue that is filled with fascinating characters, agonizing problems, and profound lessons. I have interviewed the young activists who were tortured when police put concentrated pepper spray in their eyes; climbed a 180-foot redwood to visit Julia Butterfly who has remained on a platform in the tree for almost a year; met Charles Hurwitz, CEO of MAXXAM, the corporation which is destroying all but a tenth of the Headwaters Forest; talked with the landowners whose property adjoins MAXXAM1s and witnessed firsthand how their quality of life and property value have been diminished due to the logging upslope; become one of the few people who have hiked to all six groves that are a part of Headwaters Forest; and now, looked into the eyes of the Earth First! activists who saw David Gypsy Chain killed when an irate logger deliberately felled trees in their direction. All over America, a growing number of activists are fighting battles that should have been settled through government action. David Chain died trying to hold off the cutting of ancient trees in Grizzly Creek watershed until the California Department of Forestry could determine the legality of the timber operation under way. But CDF didn1t come until it was too late. This is a book, from a mother1s point of view, about citizen responsibility and action in the face of government complicity with corporate law-breaking. From the Redwood Forest explores in depth a classic environmental battle of epic proportions. It underscores the fact that we need to sieze the opportunity to collectively inform ourselves and brainstorm now, while the world is watching, rather than wait for even more violent struggles to expose the same problems without the benefit of public scrutiny. Fifty-seven of Doug Thron1s finest color photographs show clearly the widespread destruction that is occurring behind the forested beauty strips that line our highways and also the wild majesty of that renowned forest known as Headwaters.

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Summary: JAIL HURWITZ NOW!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book explains in simple terms the descruction that P.L unloads on our earth. We are all suffering from the greed of hurwitz. When they "take" a tree alongside a stream, the sun hits the water. Then the water becomes silted, and the water heats up. Then the salmon do not come anymore. Then the eagles have nothing to eat, so they leave. With no trees, no air is cleansed, and with bad air we die. Somone else needs to leave.

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Summary: I absolutely love this book
Review: This is truly one of the finest books I've ever experienced and I can't reccommend it enough. It has heart, passion and intelligence and tackles one of the most hotly debated topics confronting humankind today in a gentle, nonjudgmental manner, allowing the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. Kudos to the author!

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Summary: JAIL HURWITZ NOW!!!!!!!!!
Review: This journal is a tough analysis of an unscrupulous corporate raider's methods of mining the temperate old growth redwood rain forests of Humboldt County, California. Joan and Doug's curiosity and observations lead her and us through all the resent events and to many victims of such a mass liquidation of forest, soil, waterways and wildlife. As a resident of the area, I have read news accounts regarding the Headwaters Forest, but none have even come close to the articulate passion that Joan has focused on to repeatedly hit her mark. The natural descriptions of the remaining groves and wildlife are tender and capable of grinding the callousness from even the hardest of hearts. I find myself walking in circles of despair for all of the destruction that has already taken place. Doug's photo journal validates every accusation made against this corporations blatant grab for money at the expense our community, our children's future and everything sacred. Read this book, then make it required reading for all of your friends and family.

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Summary: required reading
Review: This journal is a tough analysis of an unscrupulous corporate raider's methods of mining the temperate old growth redwood rain forests of Humboldt County, California. Joan and Doug's curiosity and observations lead her and us through all the resent events and to many victims of such a mass liquidation of forest, soil, waterways and wildlife. As a resident of the area, I have read news accounts regarding the Headwaters Forest, but none have even come close to the articulate passion that Joan has focused on to repeatedly hit her mark. The natural descriptions of the remaining groves and wildlife are tender and capable of grinding the callousness from even the hardest of hearts. I find myself walking in circles of despair for all of the destruction that has already taken place. Doug's photo journal validates every accusation made against this corporations blatant grab for money at the expense our community, our children's future and everything sacred. Read this book, then make it required reading for all of your friends and family.

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Summary: I Loved this book!
Review: Very heartfelt book describing the terror that is going on in N. California with respect to the ancient redwoods.A very sad but moving picture of the reality of corporate greed. Beautiful/ugly pictures of the redwoods before and after Maxxams blade.