Forest Service reunion topics cover myths, realities of fire On Wednesday, Tom Tidwell, current chief of the Forest Service, is expected to join a panel that includes former chiefs R. Max Peterson, F. Dale Robertson, Jack Ward Thomas, Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth and Gail Kimbell
Plans for U.S. Forest Service museum in Missoula to be unveiled In a return to its historic roots, a new national museum will celebrate the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula
ID - Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Logger Exhibit at The Museum of North Idaho honors ax-wielding women
Miles, Nelson And Franklin Named To The Texas Forestry Hall Of Fame For 2008 Bruce Miles, Kenneth Nelson, and Charles R. Franklin were inducted into the Texas Forestry Hall of Fame in 2008. Each worked tirelessly for the betterment of forestlands, for both public use and private landowners
New Book Written By Forester Steve Bick Profiles Loggers in New York's Adirondack Region Forest Enterprises of the Adirondacks is a new book written by forester Steve Bick. Packed with over 150 photos, this book is aimed toward informing a general audience about the people behind the region's working landscape
Oregon's Vanishing Wigwams Some call it a beehive or a teepee, but if you, your dad, your mom, brother or sister worked in an Oregon mill, it was a "wigwam."
Christmas Trees, I bet that every forester has been asked to get a tree for someone The request may be honey would you get a nice tree for the house? Or someone at work says the office needs several nice trees. Its always a nice tree that is requested.
Forester provides humorus tips on driving "Drifting" Certain driving techniques are beneficial to negotiating logging roads. SO Im not talking about drifting snow here
National Museum of Forest Service History to be built in Missoula MT Museum organizers are asking the forest products industry to become a partner in this work
AK - Forest History Society Makes Journal Of Alaska's First U.S. Forest Supervisor Available The original journal and official letters of William Alexander Langille, the first U.S. Forest Service Supervisor in Alaska, was recently loaned to the Forest History Society by the Alaska Region, Forest Service
TX - 68 Years Of Photos Document Hard Work At Tree Farm Photos discovered recently at the Indian Mound Nursery in Alto show life for the workers during the nursery's early days
OR - Loggers From TV's "Ax Men" Will Be In Vernonia Parade Grand Marshals The four logging crews featured on the History Channel's reality series "Ax Men" are this year's grand marshals at Vernonia's Friendship Jamboree parade
AR - Clark County History In 1927, Horace Cabe, an employee and stockholder of the Gurdon Lumber and Manufacturing Co., bought out the other stockholders, changed the name to Gurdon Lumber Co. and began a program of selective cutting and reforestation
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OR: Collins Company History, part 3 ... But California had gotten under E.S.s skin, and the thought of independence pushed him to suggest that maybe he should return to California to settle his fathers land claims. ... Portland, OR
Forest tells stories from long time ago In the densest part of the Bankhead National Forest, a muscle-aching, knee-straining two-mile hike over slick rocks and steep slopes, stands a beech tree that is drawing a lot of attention.
LA: The Historic Tale of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers The first local chapter of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers was formed in late 1910 in Carson, Louisiana.
TX: Cut-over timber land provided home sites Early travelers coming into Texas by land from Louisiana were awestruck by the huge stands of virgin timber, mostly pine, that covered East and Southeast Texas.
History 1898: APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING THE CUBATURE OF TREES. The figure indicated is read upon the graduated rule and is called off in a loud voice to another person, who at once writes it down.
Collins Company History: Part 2 If you met Teddy Collins, you could have easily mistaken him for a woodsman. He was a small man with chin whiskers, most often seen around in a blue work shirt, slouch hat, and frayed jeans ...
OR: Collins Company History, Part 1 Truman Doud Collins, better known as T.D. or Teddy Collins, was born in Cortlandville, New York on March 7, 1831. Portland, OR