Bill Dietrich

"The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest" by William Dietrich (University of Washington Press, $19.95). This book focuses on the debate over the management of old-growth forests both on the Olympic Peninsula and worldwide — Forks, the self-proclaimed "Logging…

William Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University, will discuss major environmental issues confronting the Pacific Northwest 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

"When I give presentations on my novels, I'm often asked two questions:

'When will it be a movie?' When snowballs persist in hell, apparently.

And, 'How does it feel to go from writing non-fiction and journalism to fiction?'

I was a newspaper…