Environmental, Logging and Mining Films

Wasted Woods

1964, 18 min., color, DVD

Wasted Woods shows wasteful forestry practices on the West Coast during the 1950s and 60s. Focusing on clear cutting and the immense machinery that cut and processed the giant redwoods, the film reveals the rapid deterioration of the forest ecology and the disappearance of towns and businesses that once relied on these destructive forestry practices.

Some of the same footage is also used in The Stump Makers.

Topics: redwoods, old growth forests, logging towns, 1950s, 1960s.

Environmental, logging and mining photographs

Other environmental, logging and mining films:

© Paul Richards
"Last of the Old Growth Redwoods" from Wasted Woods

Cover of Critical Focus
Critical Focus:
The Black and White
Photographs of
Harvey Wilson Richards

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