OVERSTORY: ZERO Real Life in Timber Country...

OVERSTORY: ZERO Real Life in Timber Country by Robert Leo Heilman (Sasquatch Books: $14.95, 221 pp.). A self-described “former hippie,” Heilman has worked as a carpenter and tree planter in Douglas County, Ore., “The Timber Capital of the Nation.” His plain-spoken essays examine both sides of the increasingly acrimonious debate over logging in the Pacific Northwest. Heilman wants to preserve the remaining old-growth forests but understands the strain the loss of timber industry jobs has put on rural communities. “Overstory: Zero” offers balanced reflections on a divisive controversy.