 Join Greg King, as he presents on his deeply researched, amazing book “GHOST FOREST: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.”Online Forest Protection Forum: March 18 at 4 pm Register HERE to join. How is it possible that humanity was ultimately able to protect only 80,000 acres, or 4 percent, or California’s original expanse of 2 million acres of coast redwood forest? The answer lies in a century-long determination by capitalists to not “preserve” but RESERVE as much ancient redwood as possible not for parks, but for industrial uses. The means to achieve such carte blanche in the woods have been cunning, usually illegal, and ongoing today. These means have included widespread land grant fraud, ineffective if not illusory forest practice laws, and even the creation of the world’s first and most effective organization dedicated to greenwashing the liquidation of ancient redwoods (Save the Redwoods League). Today, little has changed in the redwoods aside from the size of the trees. Clear-cutting remains rampant, state and federal governmental agencies continue to aid and abet often illegal redwood liquidation, and the greenwashing of redwood logging has neared a state of perfection. Greg King (one of our own, from the founding days of the Headwaters Forest campaign) is now an award-winning writer and activist who has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts and painting a historic picture of the evolution of the loss of the irreplaceable ancient redwood forest, happening in front of us and our predecessors . In 1987, King discovered and named Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, at the time the world’s largest unprotected ancient redwood grove. King’s recent book, The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods, provides the first deeply comprehensive and honest account of the 150-year history of old-growth redwood logging. The book has earned praise from Science journal, The Atlantic, and other media outlets, as well as from authors Richard Preston and Charles Frazier, activist and scientist David Suzuki, and several others. King is founder and executive director of Siskiyou Land Conservancy, a land trust that serves Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino Counties. The Forest Protection Forums are publicly accessible and sponsored by the Sierra Club. |
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