The Northwest timber industry cannot move past 1993. The spotted owl issue did not break the industry--there are still tons and tons of trees logged, but with fewer people because.
This is the grave of John Dolbeer. Born in 1827 in Epsom, New Hampshire, Dolbeer grew up on a farm like most people in New Hampshire and in fact most.
If you spend time in rural Oregon, you hear a lot of bitterness. Those damn environmentalists stopped our logging by prioritizing owls over people and now our towns have gone.
As a labor historian and scholar of the timber industry, I'm fascinated with the self-documentation of work and especially logging. This is an edited version of The Incredible Forest, a.
This is the grave of David Clough. Born in 1846 in Lyme, New Hampshire, he grew up poor on a farm that relied on a lot of logging. He went.
On September 29, 1917, General John J. Pershing appointed retired Colonel Brice Disque to find a solution to the labor situation in the Northwestern forests. He led the Spruce Production.
Unfortunately, Earth First groups are going back to their old tactic of tree spiking, which is the strategy of fighting for the earth by driving metal spikes into trees so.
I think the Endangered Species Act is really quite underrated in the history of transformative American legislation. Everyone knows about it on a basic level, but it's role in saving.
