For more than a hundred years, larger-than-life characters, many of whom are members of logging families who go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. This is their remarkable story, detailing the history of the logging industry and how technology has transformed life for today's logger, while the struggle...

"Logging and the timber industry defined the Klamath Basin during much of the twentieth century. From its small-scale beginnings through the high points of the 1920s and 1940s to the beginning of the decline in timber sales in the 1960s, the timber industry affected the communities and culture of the Basin. In a collection of articles and photographs, the authors explore the development of logging and mills from 1864 to 1950, life in logging camps,...

"Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues...

Describes how elephants are trained to help in the timber camps of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and their important contribution to the selective and sustainable harvesting of teak there.

When they find blue logging markings in the ancient forest where they like to hike, a boy and his father try to save the trees from being cut down. Includes information about how to find and enjoy ancient forests.

A logger is paralyzed when his saw hits a spike planted in a tree. The victim is John Gilliam, 43, of Oregon and through his eyes is portrayed the conflict between loggers and environmentalists. A first novel.