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My aunt's former husband wrote a whistleblower book on forestry: "The Taking of the Tongass: Alaska's Rainforest" by Bill Shoaf.

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Product Description
The Decimation of the World's Largest Temperate Rainforest as told by the man who planned the logging of it! What would make a dedicated U.S. Forest Service employee, a dyed-in-the-wool "timber beast," become a whistleblower against the timber sale he personally created? Why would environmental groups seek to silence him? What went on in the dark, rainy isolation that is Southeast Alaska?

Review
"The Taking of the Tongass: Alaska's Rainforest" is a book about trust and betrayal; about truth and lies; about dedication and despair. The book details (Bill) Shoaf's robust devotion to the land and its ability to sustain flora and fauna native to its resources- wildlife, water and fish - as well as sustaining a timber harvest level compatible with conservation and commerce. In narrative style you are led through a maze of incident-based discussion in an easy-paced conversational fashion, one that informs, entertains, irritates and infuriates. Instead of an "Index" Shoaf offers a "List of Characters." It's like a theatrical playbill, though the "actors" are real, the dialog and discussion factual, and as Shoaf penned in the opening note: "The characters, events, places, corporations and agencies are real, based upon the author's recollections and documented evidence. Any resemblance to fictitious characters, events, corporations or agencies is strictly coincidental and is unintentional." -- Frank Garred, Sequim Gazette

About the Author
Bill Shoaf has been a mathematician, professional forester, whistleblower, forest reform activist, and commercial fisherman. He is currently a recluse in the Pacific Northwest.