Last Stand: Logging, Journalism, and the Case for Humility

by Richard Manning

Book by Manning, Richard

179 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991

Reviews

[Curtis Anthony Bozif · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mid-career Montana newspaper man writing his first book. Interesting to see in this book the seeds being laid that would ultimately lead to the ideas and the later books Manning is most known for like Grassland, Against the Grain, Rewilding the West, etc.

[Abby Rodgers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting read about the lumber industry and forest service, but I feel like it could have been 100 pages shorter. After he published the main story I wasn’t as interested in the journalism politics and other things he went into. He did had some beautiful descriptions of the forest and life there.

[Belle Meade School]

333.75

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall this is a compelling book. It is however, uneven, and challenging in sections in that the author ranges in many different areas that affect the cohesiveness of his overall point. I enjoyed this book a great deal and it is full of great details on Montana and forestry and the banality of evil of private industry's abuse of natural resources.

[Tattered Cover Book Store]

Author Rick Bass recomended this book as part of the Rocky Mountain Land Library's "A Reading List For the President Elect: A Western Primer for the Next Administration."