Timber Country: Logging in the Great Northwest

by Earl Roberge

Folio, 14 1/2 x 11 1/4, [xvi], 182pp. Over 130 color photographs. Lumbermen of the Northwest using traditional and modern methods. Fabulous photographs by Roberge.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even 45 years there was so much conservation and environmental know-how evolving in forestry. This book has great photographs and is written with insightful and sometimes poetic prose.

[Garry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good coverage of all of the US Northwest, Alaska and BC. Excellent pictures and very accurate to the 60's and early 70's. A very nostalgic read for an Old Logger.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Timber Country: Logging in the Great Pacific Northwest by Earl Roberge (Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1973) (338.1). This is an enormous folio-sized art book on the timber industry on the Pacific Coast and in the Pacific Northwest. It's full of beautiful lithographs rather than photos, and the pictures are all of enormous trees that have been felled. Though the subject matter is, in my opinion, quite sad, this book nevertheless provides a record of just how massive some of the firs and redwoods actually became. I was even more pleased when I saw that this book is worth $14.00 on Amazon, for I retrieved my copy from the free bin at our local used book store. Cool, huh? My rating: 7/10, finished 8/7/15.