Timber Wars
Protesters arrested on March 31, 1989 during forest protests on the Willamette National Forest east of Salem.
‘Timber Wars’ episode 1: The last stand
The behind-the-scenes story of how a small group of activists and scientists turned the fight over ancient trees and the spotted owl into one of the biggest environmental conflicts of the 20th century.
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‘Timber Wars’ episode 2: The ancient forest
How did we go from seeing forests as crops to viewing them as ecological wonders?
‘Timber Wars’ episode 3: The owl
How a reclusive bird halted the march of chainsaws through the Northwest's last stands of ancient forest.
‘Timber Wars’ episode 4: Mill City
Before the protests and court cases, Mill City lived up to its name as a place where sawmills created plenty of jobs.
‘Timber Wars’ episode 5: The plan
The Timber Wars reached a scale that the president held a first-of-its-kind summit to broker peace to an environmental conflict.
‘Timber Wars’ episode 6: The backlash
A congressional push to bring back logging triggered a return to the barricades in the Timber Wars.
‘Timber Wars’ episode 7: A way forward
A group of loggers and environmentalists have found some semblance of common ground in the midst of the Timber Wars.
‘Timber Wars’ bonus episode: Big money bought the forest
Reporter Tony Schick and "Timber Wars" host Aaron Scott discuss OPB's private forestry investigation with ProPublica and The Oregonian.
‘Timber Wars’ bonus episode: Wildfire
The fight over wildfire and forest management is the newest front in the Timber Wars, so after a year of record fires, we take a deep dive into OPB's reporting on wildfire and what we should do about it.
The woman who would talk to trees
Renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s research into the ways trees communicate has inspired everything from “Avatar” to “The Overstory.” Now she has a memoir of her own sharing her journey from growing up in a small logging town to the research that revolutionized how we see forests.
