Did anybody LIKE the U.S. Forest Service around 1990?
It was constantly in the middle of battles over proper forest management, the timber industry demanding more logs on one hand and conservationists urging more protection on the other.
Jim Furnish was more than halfway through a long career with the Forest Service then.
In Toward a Natural Forest, he details the pressures and pleasures of life within one of the most visible and controversial government agencies.
Jim Furnish visits Ashland for a book launch, and stops by the studio on the way.