| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3

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Book Review

The People's Forests. By Robert Marshall. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. (original 1933) 264 pp. 12 charts & tables, bibliography, index. Paper $14.95.

In 1933, in the nadir of the Great Depression, a young forester named Robert Marshall proposed a bold new socialist paradigm for managing the nation's timberlands. In The People's Forests, Marshall proclaimed that public ownership was "the only basis on which we can hope to protect the incalculable values of the forests" (p. 210). Private corporate greed and mismanagement had wrought only devastation, and the time had come at last "to acquire and administer the public forests for the benefits of all the citizens" (p. 219). Unfortunately, Marshall's warnings of the grave state of the nation's woods were largely ignored; Marshall himself died suddenly in 1939, on the eve of a war that would profoundly alter his country's relationship with its forests, and his provocative manifesto slipped out of print. Now, however, in this accessible and timely new edition, scholars, students, and activists once again have access to Marshall's passionate plea to protect "the infinitely complex, constantly changing forest" (p. 192).

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