Completed: 9/25/2022
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This is an effort to provide an even handed look at those who fell trees (or parts of them) in National Forests without permits. This is a worldwide problem and is even becoming part of the crime syndicate's operations. The simple--people without jobs literally live next to forests with thousands in profit for a couple of night's work. The more complex--these people are stealing from all of us and destroying something that simply cannot be replaced, but they need a way to feed themselves and their families. This is sort a repeat of what is happening in coal country. People become dependent on an extractive industry and then that industry (and/or the resource) dries up. It is the reason that there are ghost towns in the West. The deal is, however, modern constraints have made it very hard for people to up and leave coupled with low self-esteem from not being able to work creating a drug problem. Now you have people with few options, in need of quick money, right next to a source of quick money. Bourgon does a good job of looking at the nature of the problem from all sides. No suggestions, really, on how to fix any of it.
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