A colourful view of forestry activism — An insider’s look at the logging industry.

By Shelley Leedahl
SaskToday
April 27, 2024
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada

Book Review – “Loggerheads” by Bruce Hornidge: Loggerheads is a candid account of the “Clayoquot Sound land-use scuffle” between logging protestors and forestry giant MacMillan Bloedel, and the “world media hype” that accompanied it. It’s a peppery book, written by a man who had (caulk) boots on the ground: Ex-Clayoquot Sound forest worker Bruce Hornidge, who at times was “dripping saliva from [his] teeth” while protestors were “[chaining] themselves to logging equipment and [obstructing] forest workers from doing their jobs.” …Regardless of one’s opinion of logging, it’s undeniable that Loggerheads is insightful, well-documented and at times poetic, and as its passionate author — now retired and living in Ontario — fittingly says, his “personal clarification of events” has been “Written, ironically, not on tables of stone like commandments, but on paper. From wood.”

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