This Was Logging: Drama in the Northwest Timber Country

Visit the Pacific Northwest’s “Big Woods” through the superb work of timber photographer Darius Kinsey.

"Someday, these pictures will show how the boys used to do it", Big Fred Hewett used to say in his Humboldt Saloon in Aberdeen, Washington. He knew the day would come when the Pacific Northwest's "Big Woods" would be only a fog—blurred memory and the cry "Logs! More Logs!" would no longer be heard ringing up and down the skidroads.

With the superb views of timber photographer Darius K...