Word: tillamook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal court of claims commissioner recommended that the Government pay $2,367,950 to Oregon's Tillamook, Coquille, Too-Too-To-Ney and Chetco Indians, for land taken 93 years ago under a treaty never ratified by the Senate...
...April 1. In the Midwest, summer's first good hot spell perked up the backward corn crop and the farmers' hopes. In the Pacific Northwest, hot winds pushed giant fires through unnaturally dry forests (see cut), near the 250,000-acre wasteland left by Oregon's "Tillamook burn...
...Northwest, once prodigal of its vast forests, learned that dead timber was useful when smart operators began logging the scene of the tremendous Tillamook fire in 1933, almost as soon as the ashes were cold. But wartime demand has produced scores of smaller woods-salvage operations. The best plywood logs are from virgin-growth trees, but chunks need be no longer than 8½feet. As a result farmers are logging lo-foot stumps left by pioneer woods crews near Grays Harbor, and selling them for prices ranging from $20 to $40. And the rush to harvest long-dead timber...
Consolidated Timber Co., a cooperative formed by the owners of Tillamook, started this frantic race with the insects before the embers had cooled, poured more than $3,500,000 into building logging railroads, highways and lumberjack camps. By the end of last year they had salvaged 3.5 billion feet (Tillamook timber built most of the new West Coast shipyards...
...sixth of the U.S. 1942 lumber "deficit." By 1945, when lumbermen expect that the bugs will have taken over what remains of the old stand, Consolidated's nursery at Nisqually, Wash, (which turns out 10,000,000 seedlings a year) should be well on the way to reforesting Tillamook...