Dean Barton
grew up in a large clan of loggers and truckers in the woods of western Oregon. He spent much of his childhood in one of the last communal logging camps, roaming through the diminishing old growth forests of the central Cascade Mountains. He worked in the truck shops, and drove water wagons and log trucks. While he attended three universities, he was something of a vagabond in those days, and couldn't settle down in any one place long enough to finish up; the forest kept calling him back. The woods culture is where he received his real education. Unfortunately, that school is out of business now. Barton farms in western Oregon with his family -- Elena, Max and Lily -- where he grows commercial trees, raises livestock and stewards wildlife habitat.

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Searching for the Evergreen Man
ISBN: 1932047239 · 2003 Llumina Press

Tall tales of the last timberjacks in the Oregon forest.

Get ready for a total immersion into another time & place, where loggers fall & buck, peel & snip, hook & whittle the tall trees of the Pacific Northwest rainforest, readying them for the skid road & the riverhogs who will send the giant toothpicks hurtling down river, millward.


Grip your pulaskie and stand shoulder to shoulder with fire warriors in defence of the forest queen against the raging Red Wolf.

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