Library Record
Metadata
Title |
Aloha Lumber Co. 1906-2006: Environment, People, Industry, Concerns |
Catalog Number |
2008.005.050 |
Object Name |
Book |
Summary |
Aloha Lumber Co. 1906-2006: Environment, People, Industry, Concerns 2007 This book is the history of the Aloha Lumber Company located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The company supplied Sitka Spruce to the War Department during WWI for airplanes. They harvested timber on the Quinault Indian Reservation. Page 23 - comments about the failure of the Forest Service fire control policy in 2007. Page 176 - comments on the current forest policies in the United States Page 183 --comments on timber supply The first part (Environment) briefly glances back in time at a unique part of the world in which we live - climate, and plants and animals that evolved over the past sixty million years. Some information is in the unwritten records of rock formations, fossils, and tree rings. The record-size trees of the Olympic Peninsula are related to many plants that formed coal beds 300 million years ago in a tropical climate on a landform known as Pangaea or Gondwanaland. The next part (people) is about a yet-to-be fully disclosed record of the First Nations-people who Charles M. Russell knew really discovered America. Some of their oral legends hint at arrival by sea. Their time in this hemisphere has been recently revised to be over twenty thousand years before the present time, but their origin and route remains a subject for discussion. The largest part (Industry) is based on written reports, and it occurs during the Industrial Revolution. It begins with brief accounts of seafaring explorers and proceeds through the parallel development of Aloha Lumber Company and the Quinault Indian Reservation and its people. The closing part expresses Concerns over past events, and it concludes with an optimistic look at the future. The broader story is about western red cedar, the "tree of life," and the role of the "salmon people." The book is not a "Micheneresque" effort with a plot, but is more like "Dragnet," which requires facts and analysis. |
Author |
Sterling, Richard T. |
Published Date |
2007 |
Physical Description |
220 pages Paper cover |
People |
Milward, Frank Leslie |
Subjects |
Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Grays Harbor County Washington Western Red Cedar Quinault Indian Nation Forest Industry Shingle Manufacture |
Search Terms |
Private Forestry Native Americans Wood Utilization |
Publisher |
Aloha Lumber Corporation |
Catalog date |
2008-06-24 |
Collection |
National Museum of Forest Service History |
Number of images |
0 |