DEADFALL-Pacific Northwest Logging

chris_girard

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I may have posted about this book DEADFALL before (or someone else may have) but I'm reading it again, because its just so darn good. It is a story about a family's generations of logging in the Pacific Northwest and how it went from boom to bust through these generations. The author, tells about his family and how they got their start in logging and their roles then and now in the industry. He does not try to romanticize what all of us here at TH, know is a brutally hard industry.

Two of my favorite stories in the book are the chapters on his cousins Ron and Larry Downing. Some of you guys may remember these world-champion tree-toppers and speed-climbers. How they logged and then competed in the lumberjack contests back in the 1960-70s, is fascinating reading.

Well worth reading, if you haven't already.
 
I ordered a copy, thanks Chris. Sounds interesting.

Did you ever read The Golden Spruce? I loved that book.

Cheers.
 
I'll have to pick this one up.
My fav. West coast logging book is " Sometimes a great notion"
 
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