2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed ?Logging Capital of the World? and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now.For more information on the author to to: williamdietrich.com/

Preface, 2010 | Twilight TownIntroduction | The Last Corner1. The Cutter 2. The Biologist 3. The Opening in the Trees 4. The Owl 5. The Town 6. The Guru 7. The Industry 8. The Truckers 9. The Environmentalist 10. Nobody to Blame 11. The Forester 12. The Candidate 13. A Name for the Trees 14. Refusing to Lose 15. The Empty Mill16. Sanctuary, I 17. Sanctuary, II 18. Epilogue | The Final Forest Afterword, 2010 Acknowledgments Index