The Tillamook: a created forest comes of age by Gail Wells

By Gail Wells

Debates over the destiny of historic forests were standard within the Pacific West for many years. The Tillamook takes up the query of more youthful forests, exploring the production of a controlled woodland and what its tale unearths concerning the ancient and destiny position of second-growth forests. It used to be Oregon's so much infamous conflagration-a sequence of 4 significant fires that struck the Tillamook wooded area starting in 1933 and recurred with weird and wonderful regularity via 1951. The fires burned 355,000 acres of virgin woodland and have become jointly referred to as the Tillamook Burn. during this attractive historical past, Gail Wells recounts the tale of those well-known fires and the cooperative efforts of foresters and traditional citizens-including millions of schoolchildren-to get younger bushes becoming back at the burned panorama. It grew to become one of many biggest woodland rehabilitation efforts ever, leading to a created wooded area that promised "timber forever." Now a kingdom woodland, the Tillamook is coming of age at a time while attitudes towards forests have replaced and "timber perpetually" is not any longer the guideline. In considering the Tillamook's destiny, Wells lines the old roots of competing views on woodland use and examines the modern debate over woodland matters. She sees the way forward for second-growth forests as keeping the potential for a practicable synthesis, "a actually strong, sustainable, and humane courting with our forests." In a brand new epilogue, Wells updates the tale of the Tillamook 5 years after her booklet used to be first released, and explains why the destiny of the wooded area is still doubtful.

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Timber companies hired "dummy entrymen" to file claimsthe practice was so widespread that some companies recruited warm bodies with ads in the Seattle newspapers. The false claimants were then paid to transfer title to the company. " wrote Stephen Puter in his 1908 expose. Puter was a professional land locator who got caught, went to jail, and wrote a book naming names (Levesque 1:69). Much of Tillamook County's public land was transferred to private ownership (by fair means as well as foul) under this law.

The big log reared and thrashed. With a rasp of steel cable against dry bark, Page 8 Fire across the hillsides, Tillamook Burn, 1930s. the log began to move toward the landing, grinding its way over a downed cedar. There was a trickle of smoke, a flame. Loggers ran to the fire with shovels and axes, but it had already climbed a tall snag. The snag became a torch. The wind carried flaming bits of moss and rotting wood into a logged-over patch of woods half a mile across the canyon. The slash blazed up and the fire raced on.

Page 3 With the birth of the new forest, the story of the Tillamook Burn seemed to be entering a new chapter, and the logical next question was, "What happens now? " I didn't know, so I set out to tell the story myself. Telling a forest's story, I found, is a complicated business. " This sort of opening sets up an expectation of a beginning, a middle, and an end, with cause-effect relationships drawn for all to see, and all the loose facts neatly woven back in. A forest, in contrast, is not a story; there's no beginning and middle and end.

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