Reprint of the Crestline Publishing work originally published in 1989 in the Crestline Agricultural Series. Presents a history of the evolution of transport of logs from forest to road, rail, flume, raft.... Provides timely insights on methods that resulted in minimal destruction of unharvested trees relative to current cut-and-run savaging of the woods. Hundreds of period photos badly reproduced. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.