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The sustainability dilemma : essays on British Columbia forest and environmental history Cover Image Book Book

The sustainability dilemma : essays on British Columbia forest and environmental history / Robert Griffin and Richard A. Rajala.

Griffin, Robert Brian, 1951- (Author). Rajala, Richard Allan, 1953- (author.). Royal BC Museum, (issuing body.).

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The authors delve into two of the more controversial issues British Columbian's have faced over the past 60 years--the management of our forest industry and its impact on our freshwater ecosystems.

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  • ISBN: 9780772669742 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xv, 426 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Victoria, BC : Royal BC Museum, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-416) and index.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Castlegar Campus Library SD 146 B7 G75 2016 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
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Introduction xi
Robert Griffin
1 Implementation
1(54)
Getting Started
2(3)
Organizational Challenges
5(3)
The Bigger Problems: Boundaries and Access
8(9)
Special Concerns: Implementing in Individual Regions
17(8)
Balancing Act
25(8)
Special Sale Areas
2(53)
2 Industry Responses to Government: Western Plywood in the Central Interior
55(38)
Expansion Plans
58(8)
Responding to Policy
66(4)
New Approach: Involvement
70(7)
Competition for Timber: Open Bidding
77(2)
The Loggers Control Timber Acquisition
79(7)
Working with the Forest Service
86(7)
3 Behind Closed Doors: Managing Forest Policy and Economic Development
93(26)
Public and Private Goals
96(3)
Industry Participation
99(7)
Building a Pulp Mill
106(13)
Richard A. Rajala
4 Come Hell or High Water: Log Driving, Resource Politics and Conservation in British Columbia's Stellako River Controversy, 1950--75
119(120)
Usable Energy versus Conservation
121(5)
Shaping up for Protest
126(1)
A Story Bigger than Logs
127(3)
A Brief History of a Short River and the Context of Controversy
130(22)
This Wasteful Use of a River: The 1965 Stellako Drive
152(14)
Multiple Use or Wanton Destruction?: The 1966 Stellako Drive
166(28)
Mutually Acceptable: The 1967 Stellako Drive
194(30)
Epilogue
224(15)
5 The Battle of Riley Creek: Clearcuts, Salmon and Multiple Use on Haida Gwaii, 1970--1985
239(91)
Introduction
239(3)
Clearcutting, Fish Habitat and the Regulatory Setting
242(12)
Haida Gwaii's Forest History. Rising Dissent and the Arrival of QC Timber
254(14)
Political Football: Late 1978 Slides, Jim Hart and the `Preventative Measures' Solution
268(29)
The Big Blow: Late 1979 Slides, the Bellis Case and the FFIP Solution
297(21)
Framing and Remembering Riley Creek
318(12)
Conclusion 330(6)
Appendices 336(4)
Glossary 340(2)
Endnotes 342(53)
Select Bibliography 395(22)
Index 417

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