Ep. 146 - Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 146: Lyndsie Bourgon, Author of Tree Thieves

Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, National Geographic Fellow and author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods. Join Hal and Lyndsie as they explore the many paths that led to her book on the booming trade in stolen timber and other forest products from America’s public and private lands. You will never look at a beautiful violin or guitar quite the same (“music wood’ is among the most poached and the most valuable), and you will be left pondering a very unsettling question: What is outlawry, really? From Robin Hood and Little John poaching the king’s deer in Sherwood Forest to a lone man illegally cutting shakes in shadowy Northern California redwood groves, through roadside burl merchants in dying towns surrounded by mountains laid bare by clearcutting for an insatiable global market, how exactly does one define a natural resources crime? Tree Thieves is not a simple true crime book with simple villains. It’s an exploration of humankind’s relationship to the natural world that sustains us.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	That scenario is what the timber wars was, right?
0:05.1	So, suit you to the point of like being unable to do anything
0:10.2	and then demonized by the industry that employs the vast, like most of this region.
0:17.0	In the early 20th century and you know you make your way through the wars and kind of the technological advancements that came
0:24.1	through there, clear-cutting becomes really the mode of operation and a lot of
0:30.0	those smaller companies increasingly get bought up by large global firms.
0:35.7	And the Wood is no longer sort of staying in a region or being sold to cities throughout America,
0:41.9	but you know it's being processed in Mexico and
0:44.3	it's being shipped to Asia to turn into cabinets and then it's coming all the way back you know
0:48.8	and so there you know the the systems become really globalized.
0:53.2	That led to mass deforestation
0:55.9	and a really big activist movement
0:58.4	that turned into the timber wars
0:59.9	throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1:08.0	Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast. Hey, I really wanted to thank Wilson for his long support of this podcast.
1:14.0	Without Philson, I don't get to do what I want to do with it.
1:18.0	And I've had a mighty good time over the last couple years,
1:22.0	thanks to their support. So I'd ask everybody to check
1:25.9	out Filson.com or your local outdoor retailers. If you know the history is for 125 years,
1:34.0	Philson's uncompromising commitment to quality has defined their brand
1:38.0	and their authenticity.
1:41.0	They have built trust within that community to become more than just a clothing brand.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Zack Williams, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Zack Williams and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.