Shadows on the Klamath: A Woman in the Woods

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-87071-156-5
Verlag: Oregon State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

In the 1970s, Louise Wagenknecht returned to the Klamath River country of her childhood to take a job with the U.S. Forest Service, only to discover that navigating the shoals of professional and personal relationships as an adult was much more challenging than she ever dreamed. Over the next fifteen years, as she acquired knowledge and skills and successfully performed an outdoor job long thought to be a man's work, she found friends and allies, experienced a life-changing heartbreak, and over time came to realize that what the agency and its professional foresters thought they knew about the workings of the forest ecosystem was not only mistaken, but doomed to catastrophic failure in a new and warmer century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagenknecht, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Born in Boise, Idaho, in the middle of the last century, Louise Wagenknecht was raised near the Klamath River in northwestern California. She graduated from California State University at Chico in 1972 with a degree in English, and later studied range, botany, forestry, and wildlife management at California State University at Humboldt. She worked for the U.S. Forest Service for more than thirty years. In the 1990s her essays on Western issues began appearing in regional publications and anthologies. She is the author of two previous memoirs, White Poplar, Black Locust and Light on the Devils. She lives in Idaho.