98-13NC A Western Oregon Forest Note CardThe forests of western Oregon are among the most beautiful, magnificent, and varied in the world. Oregon’s rainforests are lush as a result of the large amount of rainfall from the mild, humid Pacific Ocean current flowing along its coastline.This oil painting depicts an Oregon rainforest of Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, West Coast Hemlock, and Western Yew. You will also find vine maple, rhododendron, sword fern, lupine, fairy slippers (also called lady slippers) and beargrass. Beargrass grows in open forests and clearings. Its leaves are 1- to 2-1/2-feet long and very narrow. Indians used the leaves of beargrass to weave garments and baskets and ate the roasted rootstock. This scene also shows loggers of the early 1900s walking out of the woods on an old skidroad. These roads were built in the days of horse and oxen logging, constructed of small logs to ease the drag of the logs being pulled by the animals, and to keep the logs from miring down in the mud. The tools carried by the loggers include: springboards, usually 2-in. x 8-in., 5-in. to 6-in. long, rounded at one end where a half-moon sharpened, knife-edged steel blade was attached to bite into solid wood in the notched tree trunk. They also carried crosscut saws, bottles of kerosene used to free saws of pitch, sledges for driving wedges, and a can of kerosene. The packs were used for lunches, extra wedges, miscellaneous tools, undercutters (for the buckers) drinking water. Oregon forests offer unsurpassed natural beauty for hiking, climbing, camping, fishing, hunting, and skiing. Oregon forests also offer financial opportunity in its trees—America’s renewable resource, offering a host of products made from wood. |
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