Join Darren Speece as he discusses his book Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics at Green Apple Books on the Park on Saturday, November 25th in San Francisco, California.
The book reading will start at 6:00 pm and will be finished at 8:00 pm, and will not cost anything. This is free and open to the public.
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, logging operations have eaten away at the redwood forest, particularly areas covered by ancient giant redwoods. Today, such trees occupy a mere 120,000 acres.
“Defending Giants” explores the long history of the Redwood Wars, focusing on the ways rural Americans fought for control over both North Coast society and its forests.
