9 ‘Have a Good Day, and Try Not to Damage the Grass’: Wars in the Woods, 1986–91

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Maps vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xiii
6. Perspectives on the Policy Process: Puzzling, ‘Powering’ and the Constraining Importance of the Policy Legacy 3
7. The BC Forest Industry 21
8. The BC Wilderness Movement 43
9. Government Institutions and the Policy System 64
10. ‘You Have to Break a Few Eggs’: Environmentalism Challenges the Resource Development Juggernaut of the 1960s 79
11. The Ragamuffins and the Crown Jewels: Bob Williams Confronts the Forest Policy Orthodoxy 112
12. The Delegitimation of Social Credit Forest Policy, 1976–91 149
13. Containing the Wilderness Movement, 1976–85 183
14. ‘Have a Good Day, and Try Not to Damage the Grass’: Wars in the Woods, 1986–91 216
15. The Shifting Discourse of Wilderness Politics, 1986–91 240
16. The Rise of the Cappuccino Suckers 262
17. Sausage Making in the 1990s: Forest Practices and Allowable Cuts under the NDP 301
18. Conclusion 333
19. Appendix 1 349
20. Notes 354
21. Glossary of Acronyms 414
22. Select Bibliography 416
23. Index 430