Timber Tigers
2016
Computer Files, Websites
Timber Tigers resulted from a national tour of forest areas that Richards made in 1970-71. The film contains footage of seldom seen giant forest-cutting machinery that harvested and hauled trees of all sizes across the country. The film exposes the forestry industry's approach to logging: After us, the deluge and the desert. Deforestation results from corporate logging practices we know as clear cutting. Approaching the environment as an input to create profits is a narrow view of earth's resources which fails to take into account the impact of ecological devastation left behind on logged out hillsides. Deforestation not only removes the forest from the land, it also destroys the habitat of animals, birds and insects that contribute to a healthy environment. It contributes to global warming and the high rate of extinction of species around the globe. Corporate logging fails to foresee the collapse of local economies built during the logging boom. Timber Tigers presents footage of predatory corporate logging of the forests and the impacts of deforestation on logging towns of northern California and Oregon.
Main title:
Author:
Richards, Harvey, filmmakerKanopy (Firm)
Work:
Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Collation:
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 24 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
In Process Record.Title from title frames.Originally produced by Estuary Press in 1971.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Index terms:
DocumentariesEnvironmental SciencesHistory - ModernNorth American Studies
BRN:
416019
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/166390/external-image - Cover Image