logging

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logging

Rainforest rescue

2012
Twins Ben and Zoe are sent to the jungles of Borneo to rescue an orangutan and save his refuge from illegal logging.

The final forest

the battle for the last greatt trees of the Pacific Northwest
1992

Lumberjack

1974
The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

Hill Hawk Hattie

2004
Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on an adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.

Swift rivers

1994
After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.

Bull whackers to whistle punks

logging in the Old West
1996
Details the lives and innovations of nineteenth-century loggers in the Old West including a look at the language they created.

John and Tom

2001
When John has an accident while cutting logs in the Vermont woods, Tom, the Morgan horse who is his work partner and friend, uses intelligence and strength to rescue him.

Loggers and railroad workers

1995
Describes the lives of people involved in logging and the expansion of the railroads in the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Timberrr--

a history of logging in New England
2003
An illustrated history of the New England forests, from colonial days when settlers freely used the trees for warmth and housing to today's tensions between environmentalists and the logging industry.

The wanigan

a life on the river
2002
In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.

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