Stop Clearcutting CA | Forest Protection Forums | Greg King

Описание: How is it possible that humanity was ultimately able to protect just 80,000 acres, or 4 percent, or California’s original expanse of coast redwood forest? The answer lies in a century-long determination by capitalists to preserve 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, often illegal, and today ongoing. 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. 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 abet often illegal redwood liquidation, and the greenwashing of redwood logging has neared a state of perfection.
Greg King is an award-winning writer and activist who has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation  efforts. He is credited with spearheading the movement to protect the last ancient redwoods still standing outside of parks. In 1987, King discovered and named Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County. Standing at 3,000 acres, Headwaters Forest at the time was 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 comprehensive 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.