This is the grave of Andrew Hammond. Born in 1848 in Saint-Léonard, New Brusnwick, Canada, Hammond grew up a working class kid. This was timber country and he was just a young boy who needed to work, so logging it was. By the time he...
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On March 10, 1959, loggers in Newfoundland organizing with the International Woodworkers of America got into a violent clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Newfoundland Constabulary. One.
The problem with these poorly regulated carbon market schemes is that the replicate the exact same problems that is destroying the planet's ecosystem to begin with. This is a great.
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 the industry is so automated now. But what the owl and ancient forest campaigns did...
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.
On November 22, 1919, a white supremacist terrorist organization called the Self-Preservation and Loyalty League murdered four union leaders organizing both white and Black workers at a sawmill in Bogalusa,.
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 to hell. Oregon is an interesting state in the sense that fifty years ago, the...
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 Frederick Weyerhaeuser. Born in 1834 in Germany, Weyerhaeuser grew up in a family of land-owning farmers. During the 1848 revolutions, several of his family members.
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 into that as a career and moved to Minnesota in 1872, just before that state's...
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.
On June 21, 1935, three members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union were murdered at the Holmes-Eureka Mill in Eureka, California, by anti-union enforcers of the company. This violent.