By 2019, Oregon’s logging industry amounted to only 30,000 employees, closer to 1 in 50 private sector jobs. Market changes and environmental restrictions reduced the importance of logging to the Oregon economy in the late 1900s. Shown above is the Hampton Lumber Mill in Tillamook.

2017年9月17日 · The timber industry has played a vital role in Oregon's legacy and growth as a state. These photos provide a unique peek at the Beaver State's logging history and the rugged individuals who helped shape our great state into what it is today. Take a look:

photography and logging records. from 2001 to 2017. Explore and learn about logging in federal, state, and private lands with an interactive map that uses data extracted from government records and gleaned from satellite imagery and aerial photography.

Logging played a key role in Oregon's economy and cultural identity beginning in the 1800s. Old growth trees provided plenty of logs and jobs for local lumber mills and a growing American population. But in the days before forest replanting, trees were often stripped from an area, leaving abandoned mills and towns.

Oregon’s logging industry and the towns that supplied it were at the forefront of technological change. Advances in science and industry saw direct increases in felled and recovered timber. The region’s first lumberjacks felled old-growth trees with little more than single-bit axes.

Oregon has been at the forefront of the development of logging practices since the very beginning. The state continues to lead the field. Originally loggers used the steam donkey to increase productivity, eventually trading it for electric tools.

Much of Oregon has been heavily logged in the past, but in western Oregon, where these Landsat images are focused, nearly 1 million acres of intact, old growth forests remain. And almost all land in Oregon that is logged is reforested.

2023年8月25日 · Found on highway 97 in southern Oregon, Collier Memorial State Park stands as a testament to the rich history of logging and timber in the region. Named after the Collier family from Klamath Falls, this park offers visitors an immersive experience into the world of logging and a glimpse into the lives of the pioneers

Logging Evolution Trail The Logging Evolution Trail follows the evolution of logging machine technology in southern Oregon from the 1860s to modern day. Start your journey at the Cookhouse and follow the trail in either direction to explore three eras of logging history: horse and oxen, steam engines and internal combustion engines.

Collier is home to the largest collection of historic logging equipment in Oregon and perhaps in the nation. The original artifacts were donated by the Collier brothers, who wanted to safeguard the tools that had been vital to the central and eastern Oregon logging and milling industries.