Thirty years after the War in the Woods in Clayoquot Sound, career tree faller Bruce HornidgeB次元官网网址檚 memoir of events, Loggerheads, has hit the shelves.

Bruce Hornidge was born in 1948 in Belleville, Ontario, an Air Force B次元官网网址渂ratB次元官网网址� growing up where his father was stationed in Gimli, Manitoba and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hornidge finished school in 1967 and joined his brother Brian at MacMillan BloedelB次元官网网址檚 Kennedy Lake logging division at Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

He was still working as a logger when the B次元官网网址淲ar in the WoodsB次元官网网址� hit Clayoquot Sound: a series of blockades and protests against clearcutting that drew worldwide mass media attention.

In Loggerheads, published by SaskatchewanB次元官网网址檚 Endless Sky Books, Hornidge writes from the unique, sometimes humorous and even irreverent point of view of one of the many loggers on the west coast whose forestry careers were cut short on the other side of the demonstratorsB次元官网网址� picket lines.

B次元官网网址淔or a decade, the issue of forestland use in British Columbia raged like a forest fire,B次元官网网址� Hornidge writes in the opening pages of Loggerheads. B次元官网网址淪tarting small, it generated smoke and mirrors and a world media hype that came to hang like a stalled hurricane over a tiny, beautiful corner of the world known as Clayoquot SoundB次元官网网址攁nd the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada to that date.B次元官网网址�

After more than two decades harvesting, Hornidge says he was B次元官网网址渓oggershamedB次元官网网址� as a B次元官网网址渢ree-killerB次元官网网址� and faced soul-searing losses of identity and livelihood, part of the human fallout of the inevitable move away from a resource-based economy.

B次元官网网址淢y goal was a story that is truthful, personal, and encompasses many of the issues in this complex problem,B次元官网网址� Hornidge says.B次元官网网址淭hree decades after The War of the Woods, we know what happened, and weB次元官网网址檝e been told why. ThereB次元官网网址檚 a lot we were never told.B次元官网网址�

Loggerheads received a warm review from Bill Arnott, author of the Gone Viking series and A Season on Vancouver Island. B次元官网网址淧art treatise, part manual, part eco-memoir, Bruce HornidgeB次元官网网址檚 Loggerheads is a timely, timeless read for lovers of trees,B次元官网网址� Arnott says. B次元官网网址淩ichly shared in crisp prose, this book stands as a sentinel evergreen to the nature and industry our forests provide.B次元官网网址�

After losing his job as a logger in 1997, Hornidge became a security guard in Campbell River, Vancouver and Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Bruce and his wife, the Rev. Minnie Hornidge, live in Glen Williams, Ontario. There, Bruce gardens and knits. And writes.

Hornidge will be back on the west coast of Vancouver Island this week for a few reading events, starting with a stop at Electric Mermaid: Live Reads at CharB次元官网网址檚 Landing in Port Alberni on Wednesday, Oct. 25. The event begins at 6 p.m.

On Thursday, Oct. 26, Hornidge will be holding a meet and greet plus book signing at Mobius Books on Argyle Street, starting at 10 a.m.

Hornidge will also head over to Ucluelet on Saturday, Oct. 28 for a reading and signing at the Ucluelet Community Centre from 10 a.m. to noon.

Loggerheads is available from most bookstores, online and off. It can also be purchased directly from or

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