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Author Event – Greg King

Wednesday, September 27 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free

Join us and welcome award-winning journalist and local activist Greg King to Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater for his new book – The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

Greg will talk about the history of California redwoods, and their discovery and exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year, millions of tourists from around the world visit California’s famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world’s tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand at all. In this gripping historical memoir, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing U.S. economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem.

 

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Date:
Wednesday, September 27
Time:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://stewardscr.org/events/2023-greg-king-book-reading/

Organizer

Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
Phone
707-869-9177
Email
stewards@mcn.org
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Greta Glasmeyer

Venue

Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve
17000 Armstrong Woods Road
Guerneville, CA 95446 United States
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