Festival celebrates town's logging history Loggers and citizens compete at the Woodchoppers Jamboree and Rodeo in Encampment Carol Seavey Star-Tribune staff writer May 9, 2009 Updated Apr 25, 2013 0 ...

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Further, the logging bill is based on a mythological notion that historical forests of the western U.S. were homogenously “open”, with relatively few trees, and little or no snag forest habitat.

The name of Hugh J. Chisholm is renowned in the industry’s early history. Chisholm built Otis Falls Pulp Co. in Jay in 1888, and it was then the third largest papermill in the nation.

In 1995, Congress passed the now infamous “Salvage Rider,” which effectively suspended environmental safeguards for three years allowing the U.S. Forest Service to ramp up industrial logging ...