Ken Drushka
Ken Drushka worked as a journalist before spending sixteen years as a logger, silvicultural contractor and the operator of a custom sawmill. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, including Equity, Business in Vancouver, BC Report and Truck Logger. Drushka's books include the BC bestsellers Working in the Woods and Stumped: The Forest Industry in Transistion, Against Wind and Weather, Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters and HR: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan, which won the 1996 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize. He was also co-author of Three Men and a Forester (with Ian Mahood). Drushka passed away at the age of 63 in 2004.
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H.R.: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan 978-1-55017-129-7 · 1-55017-129-1 · 1995 · $35.95 Winner of the 1996 Roderick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize |
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In the Bight: The BC Forest Industry Today 978-1-55017-161-7 · 1-55017-161-5 · 1999 · $32.95 From tenure and forest planning to stumpage and sustained yield regulation, In the Bight covers it all, making it essential for anyone interested in BC's forests. |
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Three Men and a Forester 978-1-55017-016-0 · 1-55017-016-3 · 1990 · $6.95 |
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Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters: The History of Logging in BC's Interior 978-1-55017-189-1 · 1-55017-189-5 · 1998 · $44.95 |
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Touch Wood: BC Forests at the Crossroads 978-1-55017-074-0 · 1-55017-074-0 · 1993 · $24.95 A collection of essays vital to modern debates about the forest industry. |
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Whistle Punks & Widow-Makers: Tales of the BC Woods 978-1-55017-177-8 · 1-55017-177-1 · 2000 · $21.95 "For some people maybe logging is the kind of work they'd like to forget. But with stories like Swanson has written in Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers, you can't." -Business Logger |
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Working in the Woods: A History of Logging on the West Coast 978-1-55017-072-6 · 1-55017-072-4 · 1992 · $44.95 A comprehensive history: from rough and tough handlogging to modern day helicopter and skyline logging. With generous oral histories and photographs old and new. |