A Career In Mining And Logging
From the deepest underground mines to vast northwest forests, North America is still a land of opportunity when it comes to jobs in resource extraction.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mining engineering, logging [X], tree felling, drilling and boring machinery, loggers, vocational guidance
Blackwater Ben
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ward drops out of school and joins his father working as a cook at the Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota in the winter of 1898.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: lumber camps, logging [X], frontier and pioneer life, fathers and sons, historical fiction, minnesota
Blue True Dream Of Sky
The daughter of a logger struggles with her conflicting feelings about the fate of a forest on a nearby island when she meets a young environmental activist and reflects on the similar values held by her now comatose older brother.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Bull Whackers To Whistle Punks
Details the lives and innovations of nineteenth-century loggers in the Old West including a look at the language they created.
634.9
year: 1996
copies: 3
call number/section: 634.9
lexile: 1040
Dead Man's Rapids
"In late 1800s Minnesota, 13-year-old Ben Ward goes to work with his father in a lumber camp and signs up for a log drive with his friend Nevers, where together they endure freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms, floods, and pioneer life in general"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 19th century, frontier and pioneer life, logging [X], lumber camps, minnesota, action and adventure fiction
Early Loggers And The Sawmill
Tells how the pioneers cut down the trees to clear their land and the various ways the trees were used.
634.9
year: 1992
copies: 23
call number/section: 634.9
lexile:
Fighting For The Forest
When they find blue logging markings in the ancient forest where they like to hike, a boy and his father try to save the trees from being cut down.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: forests and forestry, logging [X], conservation of natural resources, lumber and lumbering
Fire On The Wind
The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest fire rages throughout northwestern Oregon and threatens the logging camp where Storie and her family live.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
Giants In The Land
Describes how giant pine trees in New England were cut down during the colonial days to make massive wooden ships for the King's Navy.
634.9
year: 1993
copies: 22
call number/section: 634.9
lexile:
Go West With Miners, Prospectors, And Loggers
In a newspaper-style format, discusses the hard lives of miners in the Rockies, the desperation of prospectors searching for riches in the gold rushes, the dangerous life of logging in the forests of the Northwest, and what life was like trapping for furs.
978
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: 978
lexile: 890
Go West With Miners, Prospectors, And Loggers
"Go west seeking your fortune with those who came because of the land's rich natural resources.
978
year: 2016
copies: 2
call number/section: 978
lexile: 890
Hill Hawk Hattie
Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on an adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
In The Forest With The Elephants
Describes how elephants are trained to help in the timber camps of Myanmar, and their important contribution to the selective and sustainable harvesting of teak there.
636.9
year: 1998
copies: 3
call number/section: 636.9
lexile: 970
John And Tom
When John has an accident while cutting logs in the Vermont woods, Tom, the Morgan horse who is his work partner and friend, uses intelligence and strength to rescue him.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Julia Butterfly Hill
Describes how Julia Butterfly Hill lived for two years in a California redwood tree in an attempt to save the forest from loggers.
920
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: hill, julia butterfly, women conservationists, luna (calif. : tree), old growth forest conservation, logging [X], conservationists