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 this struggle from the first sustained
contact between Native American and Euro-American cultures to 1900,
when Frederick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of 900,000 acres of
Washington forest completed one of the largest land deals in U.S.
history. He depicts an evolving Eden that was never as
environmentally pristine nor as viciously exploited as some have
suggested, but which reflected the complex relations created by
competing cultures amidst the illusion of inexhaustible
abundance.
Bunting describes in detail this distinctive bioregion and
reveals how various groups of people have viewed it, struggled to
possess it, and been shaped by it. His study illuminates the
contrasting ways in which Indians and non-Indians interacted with
the environment and with each other; the underlying myths that
governed such differences; the actual environmental attitudes of
western settlers rather than eastern intellectuals; the
inextricable links between environmental and human exploitation, as
well as between ecological and cultural stability; and the
curiously divergent paths of development taken by the two raincoast
states, Washington and Oregon.
An exemplar of the new environmental history, "The Pacific
Raincoast" expands our understanding of a vital place that
witnessed the clash of cultures; fired the imaginations of Lewis
and Clark and generations of restless Americans; conjured up
visions of empire for timber corporations; and eventually provided
a showcase battleground for environmentalists.
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