Mad River: Hard Times in Humboldt County

Traces the complex relationships among environmental protection, resource management, capital mobility, and industrial policy; and examines their effect on community economic development in Humboldt County, California, an area whose economy had depended on redwood logging for the past 100 years. Shows how the community is affected when the available timber is used up. Examines the conflict between short-term profits and long-term economic viability. Winner of 1983 National Association for Environmental Education Film Festival., Portrait of a rural community in the Redwood region of Northern California. Critically dependent on the timber industry, this community faces economic and environmental disaster with the mill closing and unemployment at twice the national average.