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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: GREG KING: RACISTS, "Greg King: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods (EXPLICIT)
Description: Every year millions of tourists from around the world come to California to see our famous redwoods. Yet few understand how unlikely it is that these last groves of giant trees still stand at all. Activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing U.S. economy drove the timber industry to cut down the giant redwoods on all but four percent of the original 2-million-acre redwood ecosystem. The land grab began in 1849, when a “green gold rush” of migrants came to exploit the legendary redwoods that grew along the Russian River. Several generations later, in 1987, Greg King...