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Logging trucks, mills, labor unions, and the Oregon and Washington coast were once taken to go virtually hand in hand. With problems attached to the use of Forest Service (federally) controlled lands, and much difficulty associated with endangered species and the presence of animals like the Northern Spotted Owl within old growth forests, it is no longer easily or accurate to say that the Cascade Range is logging country. Add to that forests that have been cut too severely to be usable again for another sixty or seventy years, and the redirection of major timber companies (which literally cut their way across the continent in the 19th century) from the Pacific Northwest back to the Southeast, and you have in this view an increasingly rare sight: a fully laden logging truck.
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