For the Forests – A History of the Tasmanian Forest Campaigns | Helen Gee (Ed.) | 2001 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Helen Gee's history of the campaigns to protect Tasmania's native forests — from the early conservation battles of the 1960s and 1970s through to the sustained conflict over old-growth logging and wilderness that defined Tasmanian environmental politics through the 1980s and 1990s.

The Tasmanian forest campaigns were among the most sustained and bitterly contested environmental struggles in Australian history — pitting the timber industry and the powerful Gunns Ltd against conservation groups, the Greens, local communities and international environmental organisations. The battles over the Styx Valley, the Tarkine, old-growth forests and the export woodchip industry played out over decades and fundamentally shaped Tasmanian politics, the rise of the Australian Greens, and the national debate about native forest logging.

At 378 pages with an index, this is a comprehensive account of those campaigns — who fought them, how they were fought, and what was won and lost.

An essential reference for anyone researching Tasmanian environmental history or the history of the Australian conservation movement.

Out of print since publication and not commonly found.

CONDITION

• Used, generally good condition.
• Some fading to the spine of the dust jacket.
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BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover with dust jacket.
• 378 pages, indexed.
• Published 2001. Out of print.

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