The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Timber Culture Traveling Exhibit is on display at the Deschutes Historical Museum in Bend. Ever since Gwen Trice was a young girl growing up in La Grande, she wanted ...
GRAND RAPIDS — Bob Latvala grew up with lumberjacks. Some of his favorite memories involve waking up at 4 a.m. in the winter, feeding the horses, heading out into the woods at 6 a.m. and felling trees ...
The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Timber Culture Traveling Exhibit is on display at the Deschutes Historical Museum in Bend. Ever since Gwen Trice was a young girl growing up in La Grande, she wanted ...
Photographs on the walls show images not common at Oregon heritage museums: faces of Black loggers and their families living and working in rural Wallowa County. Those images, along with other ...
Around the turn of the century, the town of Encampment was best known for mining the copper-rich Sierra Madre Mountains. But in more recent history, logging brought jobs to the small town in southern ...
In an article from Aug. 23, 2024, which you can read here, we explored what life was like in Pacific Northwest logging camps ...
Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...
When La Crosse Loggers players got their first close-up look at renovated Copeland Park last weekend, many of them declared the place to be a "launching pad." It didn't take long for the Loggers to ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Daniel Boone — yes that's his real name and yes he's related to the real Daniel Boone — is in Capitol Forest near Olympia. He’s wearing a bright orange hard hat, logs are being yarded ...