IF YOU want a different kind of coffee table book, I highly recommend Clearcut, The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, the book that haunted Mikey Hardcore during his trip to Europe. If nothing else, with British Columbians so divided on the issue of clearcutting, the book guarantees you itlively debate when the guests arrive. I's the most powerful indict- ment of our current forestry prac- tices yet. While there have been calendars and glossy books out before, they tried to turn people on by cempha- sizing the visual magnificence of such places as Clayoquot by show- | ing pictures of the forest in its nat- ural, pre-clearcut state. This book stuns you with the sheer relentlessness of the assault on our planet’s remaining forest cover. Page ufter double page of color panoramas of forests laid bare. - - This is a report for North “Americans, . It certairily won't tell the : “-Buropeans much they didn’t know, ~ except perhaps something about the . scale of the damage already done. __ "As for them, they know perfect- “ # ly well what the end result of defor- _ estation is, They’re living in -: Paradise Lost. We haven't quite wrecked it all yet, although we are “well on our way. British Columbia : "features heavily in _» these pages, with the -test of Canada earning : “a mere picture per “ province, ‘ «-The American “states are similarly > represented, except for “Alaska Oregon and Washington, which are going through the same horrifying transformation as B.C., and fi e-almiost as promi- ! There is so much material here, it would te a waste to atlempt to ‘review Hie book in one column, poe Sinds. foresiry has such a direct, and ticreasingly felt impact on the 5.C; lifestyle, economy and, let us say, philosophy, Twill return to this book later in an effort to pass along :, the message of the different authors who contributed essays.” ; », Make no mistake, this isa book : that will stiffen the spine of the ‘treehuggers and infuriate the forestry establishment. For those who have only seen an occasional photograph of a clearcut, usually front ground level, - The Perfect RSP investment! Provincial Government Guaranteed Please Call: ‘The North Shore's only Full Service investment Firm 981-6600. RBC ° eH DOMINION cat SECURITIES | | Member of Rayal Bank Group 201-250 15th St., Wast Vancouver STRICTLY PERSONAL this is like being taken up onlo a mountain over a battlefield and shown all the bodies. Those of us who have flown -over clearcuts will be less shocked, but the total effect of turning these pages is something very close to a sense of despair. Surely, it’s hopeless to try to stop a monster with the power to do this! Hiroshima was a drop ina bucket in comparison. In the foreword, David Brower, . who helped to publish many previ- ous Sierra Club books, says that those books “Sdught to lead people . to fall in love with beautiful places, to leam what was threatening them and what they could do to amelio- 66 Page after double page of color panoramas of forests laid bare, ¥9 rate the threat. “Whatever the books accom- plished, it was not enough. The beauty of prose and image may have been too tranquilizing. ‘Look how much there is! Surely it is inexhaustible!’ " Clearcut, The Tragedy of “Industrial Logging makes up for the earlier glossy pulf-pieces. This will do a lot more damage to the forest industry than a million spikes. [think this is a very important document. It presents the definitive case against modern forestry, Over to the PR peuptc at Mac-Blo to counter this, Good luck, The publication of this hoak may mark the turning-point ina batde that has so fur seen the politi- cal, judicial, business and labor powers-that-be arraigned mightily on one side, gorging themselves on our children’s forest heritaze while truckloads of protesters are hauled off to jail, What amazes me is how litte people think ahead. even when the evidence is staring them in the face. Surely it can’t be so difficult to project a few decades into the future, when we are down toa few islands of old-growth (by then “mysteriously” dying because the larger ecosystem of which they were once a part of is gone), and contemplate how ripped-off our descendants will feel, knowing, from old footage, how vast the trea- sure of our forests had been. The rest of the world would have been clamoring to come here and pay us for the experience of sharing these oh-so-precious wild- lands, but no: the self-interest and immediate short-term gain of a sin- gle generation will have prevailed, and the fabulous oasis of old- growth will have been reduced to remnants. The authors mince no words and neither does the editor, Bill Devall, who writes: “This is a book about industrial forestry,-a process that combines the world view of the | industrialist with the logic of the assembly line for its final assault on the earth’s forests. “In these startling images of clearcuts — from Alaska to Nova Scotia, from Maine to Alabama to Califomia — we see the ultimate expression of industri- al consciousness: landscapes of mas- sacre, battlefields in the war upon nature and life. “One hundred and fifty photographs and {5 essays by some of the world’s most celebrated nature photographers, writers and scien- tists tuke us to once-magnificent forests and wilderness areas where few travellers have gone, save for those with bulldozers and chain- Saws. “We sce what happens behind the cosmetic rows of trees along highways (the “beauty strips”) and we grasp the pathetic, cynical pub- lic relations of corporate “tree — farms” that seck to mask a terrible reality. 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