Knock on wood nature as commodity in Douglas-Fir country

• Main Author: Prudham, W. Scott
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2005; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Commodity agreements; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; Environmental economics; Environmental economies; Environmental Geography; Environmental policy; Forests and forestry; Logging; Logging - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific; Lumbar trade; Lumber trade; Natural resources; Nature; Resource depletion; Wood market; Northwest, Pacific; Northern Spotted Owl; forest; Reconstituted Wood Products; Solid Wood Products; Plywood Mills; Western Wood Products Association; Tree Improvement; Forest Trees; Spotted Owl; fir; Pacific Slope; Timberland Ownership; products; Josephine County; Young Men; Lumber Sector; douglas; Lumber Manufacture; solid; Sustained Yield Forest Management; Lumber Mills; Lumber Industry; Forest Dependent Communities; Southwestern Oregon; strix; slope; Sustained Yield Management; pacific; Sustained Yield Forestry; Douglas Fir Region; Lumber Production; Raw Material Dependence; Seed Orchards; service; region
• ISBN: 0415944023; 0415944015; 9780415944014; 9780415944021
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203446164

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.