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I reviewed Willa Hammitt Brown's Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack for The Nation. The book is excellent, but what it really allowed me to do was to talk through some of the bigger issues we face today. A couple of...
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The Lumber Boom

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On May 7, 2021
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 years, the price of 1,000 board feet of lumber has generally traded in the $200...
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 have for the fashion and work life of an imagined, romanticized logger. Brown compares this...
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 in Counterpunch fascinating, both in content and for what it says about the historical trajectory...
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