Most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed a co

In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agency's history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine tim

California's sawmill and railroad industries grew up together, each at least partially depending upon the other for survival. However, not all of the Golden Sta