Forest Under Siege - Rand Schenck - Bog

Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) from 1905 to 1910, once marveled at the Cascades' ancient forests, but by 1990, relentless logging left less than thirteen percent of the Pacific Northwest's original old growth, and projected USFS plans were to log almost all of the unprotected remainder by 2023. Environmental activist Rand Schenk utilizes interviews and USFS reports to examine 100 years of Pacific Northwest forestry--revealing just how close the region's forests came to extinction--and relaying efforts to restore the damage.