History Forum: Workers, Nature, & Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country with Steven C. Beda

In his new book Strong Winds and Widow Makers, Steven C. Beda challenges popular narratives about the clashes between timber workers, environmentalists, and employers. Highlighting the voices of timber workers themselves, Beda reveals a complex and nuanced history of timber-working communities and their connections to the environment, a relationship colored by class, community, understandings of nature, forest science, politics, popular culture, and economics. This in-depth look at workers embedded in the forest reveals an ethic of stewardship built around protecting jobs, protecting the forest, and protecting an important part of their own identities.