If the Washington landslide was on the east coast rather than a remote Washington logging town, it would have run the Malaysian Air flight off the front pages. But instead it's only west coasters so it gets relegated to a fairly minor part of the...
timber industry
On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin created the first workers compensation program, followed almost immediately by Washington and most of the Northwestern states. This was the beginning of a system, albeit.
As some of you know, I have a pretty complex and ambivalent view of the history of the Pacific Northwest, largely because I grew up in a timber-supported household when.
For this week's Forestry Friday, I want to talk about the town of Valsetz, Oregon. Valsetz was a tiny company town in the Oregon coast range founded in 1919. It was owned by the Boise Cascade corporation (after a couple of earlier owners). Company towns...