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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.

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.

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.

Details the lives and innovations of nineteenth-century loggers in the Old West including a look at the language they created.

"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.

Tells how the pioneers cut down the trees to clear their land and the various ways the trees were used.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Go west seeking your fortune with those who came because of the land's rich natural resources.

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.

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.

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.

Describes how Julia Butterfly Hill lived for two years in a California redwood tree in an attempt to save the forest from loggers.