The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods
This gripping and informative (Publishers Weekly) account of financier Charles Hurwitz's takeover of the Pacific Lumber Company (PL) in remote Northern California is as much a story about the struggle for the soul of capitalism as it is about the fight to save the ancient redwoods on the company's lands. For generations the family-owned PL had operated on the banks of the Eel River in Humboldt County under the principle of long-term sustainability over short-term profits: employees were treated respectfully, and no more than seventy percent of old-growth redwoods would be cut in order to give the forest time to reseed. David Harris skillfully…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59714-441-4
- EAN: 9781597144414
- Produktnummer: 27177109
- Verlag: Heyday Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.0 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
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A fourth-generation Californian and legendary antiwar activist, David Harris is a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the New York Times Magazine and the author of eleven books. His essay My Redwood Confession is featured in The Once and Future Forest (Heyday/Save the Redwoods League, 2018).
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