| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. By Jake Kosek. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $23.95.
Understories begins with the author's arrival in Truchas, New Mexico, a village eight thousand feet high in rugged mountains. A neighbor who is Hispano and counts his family's presence there in centuries welcomes him by firing two .30–06 rounds over his head and one at his feet. Kosek aspires to study the interplay of nature, culture, and race in a contested environment. He has come to the right place.	1
The times are taut: tensions over logging, grazing, and even firewood collection on the surrounding National Forest have never been greater, and in Santa Fe Hispano activists have hung lawsuit-happy white environmentalists in effigy. Nor are things well in Truchas and nearby communities, which have the nation's highest per capita rate of death from heroin overdose.	. . .

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