In timber dependent communities across the forest lands of the Pacific Northwest, working as a logger was for generations the best job option. But as the cutting of old growth timber has been more restricted the employment outlook for loggers has become more grim.
A tree faller in the Olympic National Forest makes the final cut to drop an old growth douglas fir.
Workers at a mill built near the Olympic National Forest specifically to process old growth faced closure when the Federal Court mandated a reduction in timber harvests
