Excerpt from Relationship of Log Production in Oregon and Washington to Economic Conditions In the history of the Pacific Northwest, log production and conversion have been major economic activities. The long-term trends in timber harvest ing have been upward, and most of the harvest has come from large old - growth forest inventories. National and international demands for timber have been a major upward pressure on log production levels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.