Timber tigers

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Tricontinental

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the history of the lumber industry from its beginnings to the present, exposing irrational patterns of use by large corporations that have resulted in the ecological devastation of the nation's forests. Includes startling footage of forest destruction in the Northeast, California and the South. Claims that the land-protection policies of the US Forest Service are now dominated by the lumber industry.