Moving away from traditional methods of sustained yield (‘ not cutting faster than the forest could grow back‘) has also caused soil erosion.
It swiftly becomes apparent that the chemical sprays the logging company use to kill the brush are contaminating the community’s water supply and causing defects in unborn babies, as well as illness in children and adults. It’s 1977, and Rich is an old-timer, felling trees for timber his wife, Colleen, longs for another baby but keeps suffering miscarriages.
Despite this, neither of them quite worked for me as fiction – though I’m glad to have read both! Here are my thoughts:Īsh Davidson’s debut novel, Damnation Spring, is set in the redwood groves in Del Norte County (“ Nortay,” one of the locals mocks an outsider who visits to pronounce on the fate of the logging industry there, ‘ It’s Del Nort. These two long California-set historical novels were so meticulously researched and the stories of the characters so intensely intertwined with the environment they lived in that it felt as if their writers had resurrected little pieces of the past.
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