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  1. slowp

    Excellent Description of Cable Yarding Work

    This popped up this morning. I secretly spent a morning setting chokers. I wandered down into the unit checking stuff on a Monday morning. The rigging crew hadn't shown up so one of the owners was dragging line and setting chokers. I felt sorry for him and ended up getting a good lesson on...
  2. slowp

    USDA Forest Service Foot In The Door Opportunity

    Job opportunities. These are seasonal but considered permanent so benefits are included. It's a way to get started and get a year round position eventually, with promotion, if you don't mind relocating. The Forest Service is Hiring Permanent Seasonal Employees Permanent Seasonal Positions...
  3. slowp

    The Logger's Daughter

    A story about a logging camp where families lived in Eastern Oregon.
  4. slowp

    Smokejumpers

    Here's a good overview, with pictures, of the not quite local base. The article has a paywall but if you haven't read much of the Seattle Times, it might let you read and look at the pictures. What they don't mention is all the aches and pains that show up later in life from doing this very...
  5. slowp

    Fire Shelters, Lassie, and Other Stuff

    I did not know they had them back then. Nor the facemask. Lassie makes it through a fire shelter deployment!
  6. slowp

    Least Stressful Work

    According to this Seattle Times article, farming and forestry are the happiest and least stressful careers to be in. It's all about being outdoors in nature. There may be a paywall blocking this. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/the-happiest-least-stressful-most-meaningful-jobs-in-america/
  7. slowp

    What Is Timber Cruising?

    Perfect description--stumbling through the woods. For folks not familiar with how timber is estimated and bought, this is a very simple explanation. No chainsaws, just timber cruising...
  8. slowp

    An Interview About Lookouts And The WA DNR

    This is quite interesting. Unfortunately, the sound isn't the best.
  9. slowp

    Forester Mobility

    This was posted yesterday as a way that Hampton was moving foresters around the woods. We often discussed using Jet Packs but those could be a fire hazard.
  10. slowp

    Forest History

    Bet you didn't know this. From a Wenatchee Okanogan National Forest Facebook post: The Triple Nickles never doubted themselves. These dapper-looking men were a mix of former university students, top-notch professional athletes and veteran non-commissioned officers. Although ready, they were...
  11. slowp

    Forest Service Seasonal Jobs

    Here's a link. FS Job Info
  12. slowp

    Another Market For Logs --short ones

    $67 for fake. Real ought to be priced higher. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KWCLXXY?ref_=pfb_HIT_1_9_jbhw8bh12nixltfn&tag=fbasaphit-20&ascsubtag=pfb-HIT-1-9-jbhw8bh12nixltfn&fbclid=IwAR1WFYKO3HNUgQWVcZ0fItzj3GnXNtnSsfaN7iUqmIfeUVXqs7XI7KRCP4s
  13. slowp

    British Columbians Please

    I live south of the border where the Okanagon is the Okanogan. We share smoke. Can you list a good site that is up to date and lists fires when they break out? Someone who lives closer than I has posted a picture of what looks to be three good sized smoke columns to the north and I can't...
  14. slowp

    Pony Twigging

    Horse and pony logging video. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  15. slowp

    Covid Whistleblowers About Last Year's Fire Assignments

    The article does say that Covid was taken more seriously on Warshington fires. I've worked on both these forests and am a bit surprised, but everybody I knew is retired. Not meaning to get into a mask argument. I do know that a couple of fire folks came back here and tested positive, but...
  16. slowp

    Fire Salvage, The Usual Woes

    Controversy over logging hazard trees. Everybody is an expert, except for the experts. Note the word "extraction" which is now used to make timber harvest sound more dire. I noticed that term appeared about 5 years ago in enviro pleas for money. Fire Salvage
  17. slowp

    Discussion of Creative Logging

    Former stars of Axmen win an award for logging a difficult piece of ground. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  18. slowp

    Protect The Second Growth

    I can't link to it because it is behind a paywall for the Seattle Times. Apparently there is a tree sitter in our fair state's (don't move here) Capital Forest. Apparently he objects to a timber sale and built a platform in a tree in the unit and is up there. I have deduced all this from a...
  19. slowp

    The Perfect Fire

    You know that 2AM out on the line trying to keep halfway alert feeling? That's when meaningful trivia begins, like name all the Brady Bunch, or deep discussions about The Three Stooges. One topic that came up was the perfect fire location. I thought about this whilst riding my bike past a...
  20. slowp

    Why Trees Are Harvested

    This is just a small part of all the fence they've been putting up. Support the timber industry, build a fence.
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