Ralph W. Andrews (1897–1988)

This book details the history of logging, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Since most old growth has been cut, this is a good place to see what it looked like and how it was removed from our landscape.

Drawbacks of the book are its sparcity of text(about 50% photos and 50% text and no charts or graphs), and its lack of much organization, it has no chapters or index. In a sense it is a photo history organized in a rough chronology. Still, the photos do show what old growth looked like and how it was removed.… (more)