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Upon reaching the Oregon Cascades, most Oregon Trail pioneers either rafted their wagons down the Columbia River or traveled the Barlow Road overland around the south side of Mt. Hood to the Willamette Valley, both treacherous options. Following the discovery of gold in eastern Oregon, reliable overland travel became an increasing priority, and the state appropriated resources in 1872 to build a wagon road through the Columbia River Gorge. Treacherous slopes, steep grades, and construction of...
The Giving Tree: The Story and Archaeology of the Western Redcedar on Washington’s Department of Natural Resources Lands (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over 2.4 million acres of trust lands, which must generate revenue for the state’s beneficiaries. Therefore, DNR harvests three-billion board-feet of lumber annually. Long before these forests were managed by DNR, they...