This means...

• I will give evidence of why timber was such a valuable resource. 

• I will describe how settlers worked with the logs. 

• I will recognize what settlers falsely believed about our forests 

• Do any of your parents or family work either in the lumber, paper, or timber business?

  • • • Do you know what they do at their job?

• Did you know that in the 1920s R.A. Long built the world’s largest sawmill in his planned city of Longview, WA.

• In the late 1970s, there were 6,400 timber jobs in Cowlitz County, and a third of all jobs were in manufacturing (mostly the timber industry).

• Today there are over 41,000 jobs in Cowltiz County, one-sixth of the county’s employment base is in manufacturing, including two paper mills, several sawmills, a large chicken processor, as well as numerous smaller producers in machinery, fabricated metals, chemicals and other segments.