This is the grave of Buzz Martin. Born in 1928 in the ridiculously named Coon Hollow, Oregon, a community near Stayton, Martin was a man of the working class. His father worked for the railroad when he could work but the Great Depression was very...
logging
I haven't done a logging film in a long time, which considering my long-term interest in the profession and its history seems unlikely. So let's watch this 1926 film Logging.
The desire of people to redo their homes in the face of being inside for a year has led to an unprecedented lumber boom. Prices have, in turn, skyrocketed. For.
Oxford University Press has released what it is calling the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. It's written by top scholars and is something that is primarily (or maybe exclusively) online and will be updated with new entries. It's also free, at least for the...
Listen people, you have two choices. You can eat this month. Or you can buy my new book Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests, published by.
Willa Brown published a piece in the Atlantic yesterday on "lumbersexuality" and a crisis of masculinity. By lumbersexuality, Brown means the logger fetish a certain subset of bearded hipster men.
I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history of worker safety in logging. Sadly, things aren't always so different today: On August 28,...
As we cut down our last tropical forests, decimating the lungs of the planet, at least a few people are bravely trying to stop it. In Brazil those activists are.
If there's one thing in this world I follow more closely than any other, it's the politics surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. So I found this Michael Donnelly essay.