Tongass : pulp politics and the fight for the Alaska rain forest / by Kathie Durbin.
Tongass : pulp politics and the fight for the Alaska rain forest / by Kathie Durbin.
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Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, c1999.
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N333.7513097/1
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English
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328 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. To 1980. 1. The Contracts. 2. The Conservationists. 3. Angoon. 4. The Big Squeeze. 5. Opening Up the Country. 6. The Backroom Deal -- Pt. II. 1980-1990. 7. Picking Up the Pieces. 8. Coverup. 9. Timber Mining. 10. Union Busting. 11. Confronting the Beast. 12. Smoked Salmon and Alaskan Beer. 13...
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Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, c1999.
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Oregon
Date Published
c1999.
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"In her insightful account of Alaska's era of pulp, Durbin draws on the voices of the people most affected: independent loggers who fought back when the pulp companies conspired to drive them out of business, courageous biologists who warned that logging was destroying critical fish and wildlife habitat, Tlingit Indians who saw their traditional hu...
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Tongass : pulp politics and the fight for the Alaska rain forest / by Kathie Durbin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-322) and index.
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N333.7513097/1
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ISBN
087071466X (alk. paper)
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333.7513097982
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991011928219702626