Early Logging In The Pacific Northwest

Until 1848 the vast forests sustained several Indian tribes and fascinated Anglo explorers. During this first period the lumber industry was still in its infancy, with the Hudson Bay Company erecting the first mill in the Pacific Northwest at Fort Vancouver in 1828. The beginning of the California Gold Rush in 1848 brought the second phase.

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Jan 17, 2018 · In Washington State, clearcutting was once a necessary step in taming the land for habitation and jump-starting a local economy that would pave the way for development of the Pacific Northwest. Initial logging enterprises in mid-1800s Washington existed to supply timber to California’s Gold Rush and the population growth it precipitated.Author: Rian Dundon

Jan 16, 2014 · Early 20th century Pacific Northwest Logging film clips shows the process of turning nature's forest into lumber shipped to market. Courtesy Oregon Historical Society Research Library Moving Image...Author: Finding David Douglas film

Pacific Northwest “Logging Camp Life” 1850-1940 A Collection of Annotated Bibliographies. Ripley, Thomas Emerson. Green Timber: On the flood tide to fortune in the great northwest . Palo Alto: American West PC, 1968 A first-person account of life in the booming lumber town of Tacoma, WA in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s.

Jan 26, 2019 · "Some 70 million acres of commercial forest land once covered the Pacific Northwest. Large Douglas firs, spruce, hemlock, and cedar trees grew west of the Cascade Range…

In 1910 Idaho was distributing 745 million board feet nationally and in the 20th century, the Northwest and Pacific Northwest became the logging center hub of the United States.The Industry quickly moved and expanded throughout Washington and Oregon and the timber harvest rate changed exponentially from 5% to 50% a year between 1945 and 1970.

Jun 11, 2012 · It is difficult to imagine the development of Seattle and the rest of Washington without the presence of the logging industry. It didn't take long for the California Gold Rush to expose the need for a steady, good supply of lumber. Starting in the 1850s, the area around the Puget Sound …

Loggers began to mechanize at the begging of the 20th century in the Pacific Northwest. For example, this writer's great grandfather was an old country Swede who settled in the St. Helens > area in the 1880's. He began logging with bull teams. which were used to drag the logs …

High-lead Yarding, Deer Island Logging Company - c. 1925 $25.00 As low as: $4.00. By the 1920s, high-lead logging had replaced ground-lead logging for many operations in the Pacific Northwest. Both utilized steam donkeys to power cables pulling logs to the yarding area.