August 31, 2021--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow, hosts of \u201cTalking about California,\u201d interview Susanna Hecht, Professor of Geography at UCLA\u2019s Environment and Sustainability Institute. In a conversation that ranges from the redwood forests of northern California to the heart of the Amazon in Brazil, Professor Hecht discusses human \u201cmanagement\u201d of the earth\u2019s forests from Paleo-Indian times to the present. The program is part of a series of in-depth interviews that examine the fate of the California redwood forests, focusing on Mendocino County.