Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow host a special episode of Talking about California. They interview Professor Will Russell, an environmentalist at San Jose State University. Russell is a leading authority on redwood restoration, and the role of redwood forests in carbon sequestration. He is an expert on how commercial logging increases the threat of wildfires. Much of Russell’s research has been done in Jackson Demonstration State Forest here in Mendocino County.
Cal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute and a past Fellow in Environmental History at the University of California, Berkeley. He was trained at Antioch College and Warwick University, where he studied under the direction of the late Edward Thompson. He is a co-author with Thompson of Albion's Fatal Tree. After Warwick he worked as a warehouseman, truck driver and journalist, as a participant in and observer of the 1970’s rank-and-file workers’ rebellion in the US. He was a professor of labor studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York, and he was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Northern College for Residential Adult Education in South Yorkshire, also a visiting professor at the Evergreen State College.
