Bibliographic record
Abstract
Strong Winds and Widow Makers examines what the forests have meant to the rural working-class communities spread throughout timber country, the band of forestland stretching from southern Oregon to northern British Columbia. Countering pervasive public images that often portray the Northwest’s timber workers and the rural working class as indifferent to the ecological and environmental effects of logging, this book shows that an ethic of forest stewardship has long been central to the culture and history of the people who’ve lived and worked in the Northwest woods. A desire to simultaneously protect their communities and the forests where those communities were located has shaped the identity and culture of timber workers and driven labor activism in the region, from the industrial unions of the twentieth century to the fights to protect jobs and the timber industry in the later twentieth century. Understanding this history provides new ways of thinking about people who work in nature and about the forests themselves. Listening to the voices of loggers and people from timber-working communities reminds us that forests, for all their beauty and grandeur, provide an important commodity that remains central to US and Canadian national and global economies. Listening to the voices of timber workers helps thinking about ways to balance economic uses of the forest with protecting wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and recreational space.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".