The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900

by Robert Bunting and Robert Bunting

Book Overview

The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-publicized controversies pitting spotted owls and salmon against logging interests and power companies. But, as Robert Bunting shows, such conflicts are only the most recent emblems of the competition for dominion in the Douglas-fir region running from southern Canada to northern California. Bunting chronicles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611010
• ISBN13: 9780700611010
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"