Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist  credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in  Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars”  following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber  Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam.  Greg  King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation  efforts. King’s articles and photographs have appeared in The Sun, Sierra, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Portland Oregonian, the Sacramento Bee, Mother Jones and other publications.  In 2016 the Environmental Protection  Information Center presented King with its annual Sempervirens Lifetime  Achievement Award. King lives in Humboldt County. Today we talk about his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.