FORKS — William Dietrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks and the Pacific Northwest, will hold a book reading, discussion and book signing today.
The event, which is free, is at the University of Washington Olympic Natural Resources Center, 1455 S. Forks Ave., beginning at 5 p.m.
The Final Forest, published in 1992 and updated in 2010, explores the forests in and around Forks with a journalistic perspective of the political and environmental battle over the northern spotted owl and old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Dietrich worked at The Seattle Times from 1982 to 2008. He was part of the four-person team at the Times that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
A Northwest native, he has written three other nonfiction books and nine novels, including a four-part adventure series, The Barbary Pirates, Napoleon’s Pyramids, The Rosetta Key and The Dakota Cipher.
Today’s schedule:
n 5 p.m. — Meet-the-author reception.
n 6:30 p.m. — Book reading from The Final Forest and discussion.
Copies of The Final Forest will be available for purchase from the author at the event.
Forks’ Chinook Pharmacy & Variety, 11 S. Forks Ave., also has books in stock.
The event is sponsored by the Rosmond Forestry Education Fund, an educational series in forestry topics at the University of Washington.
For more information, phone Ellen Matheny of the natural resources center at 360-374-4556 or e-mail her at ematheny@uw.edu.
