THE MAKING OF THE NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN

Join Authors Norm Johnson and Jerry Franklin, who will discuss their new book, “The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan,” written with co-author Gordon H Reeves.

Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest during the late 1980s and early 1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result.

In The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan: The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems (Oregon State University Press, 2023), three of the scientists who helped craft that change tell the story as they know it: the causes, development, adoption, and effects of the Northwest Forest Plan.

OHS Boyle Family Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk will facilitate a conversation with the book’s authors, K. Norman Johnson, Jerry F. Franklin, and Gordon H. Reeves, moderated by Kerry Tymchuk, discussing this momentous event in regional and national history and it repercussions today.

Copies of The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan will be available for sale and signing by the authors through the OHS Museum Store.

Free and open to the public