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 ...
See how loggers took on the grueling task of cutting Cypress trees in the Everglades, often trudging through hip-deep swamps to reach them. It was one of the most demanding logging operations in ...
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Remember the Logger Memorial

The Bureau of Labor Statistics rates logging as one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
MYRTLE POINT — Nowadays, just about all Glen Olson talks about is logging, if you’re lucky enough to meet him at the Coos County Logging Museum. Olson, who will be 88 in a couple of months, once ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...