Tree Huggers

The battle to protect the ancient Northwest forests and the evolution of America's environmental policies   

Longtime environmental journalist Kathie Durbin tells the story—at times inspiring and heartbreaking—of the band of activists who from the 1970s onward invested passion and science to save the remnants of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forests. Reduced by a century of logging, the forests still hold "the complex wisdom of thousands of years of evolution," and grassroots campaigns fought fiercely alongside national conservation groups to preserve them.