Join us and welcome award-winning journalist and local activist Greg King to Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater for his new book – The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
This event is free and open to the public – sponsored by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods and Russian River Books & Letters.
If parking in the front parking lot of Armstrong Redwoods, please account for 15 minutes walking time from the parking lot to the theater.
Registration for this event is required.
Greg will talk about the history of California redwoods, and their discovery and exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down.
Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California’s famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world’s tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand at all. In this gripping historical memoir, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing U.S. economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem. King first examined redwood logging in the 1980s—as an award-winning reporter. What he found in the woods convinced him to leap the line of neutrality and become an activist dedicated to saving the very last ancient redwood groves remaining in private hands.
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Armstrong Redwoods Forest Theater
17000 Armstrong Woods Road
- Guerneville