Clearcutting: All In a Day’s Work

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Former logger Robert Leo Heilman comments on the trouble he had justifying to himself that his work was ethical. Heilman’s collection of essays, Overstory Zero: Real Life in Timber Country, is published by Sasquatch Books.

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