LOGGER PRIDE:A.F. Timber Co. loggers share their love for the job

摘要

When Al and Erin Fitchett look out their picture window, across the west arm of Koote-nay Lake near Nelson, B.C., they see the steep forests of the Selkirk Mountains stretching off in the distance. They also see scattered traces of the loggers who came before them, men and women who made their living sustainably harvesting the mature fir, hemlock and cedar for the local sawmills. Those mills helped the nearby communities thrive and expand and were not seen as eyesores and polluters but rather as necessary employers that supported many families. The loggers of yore were proud of what they did for a living. They were highly skilled, did a dangerous job and the towns-folk understood and welcomed them with open arms.