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Adapt
the following suggestions for emphasis while viewing the
program or create your own activities, suggestions, and areas
of focus. Remember to stop or pause, back up and review, and
take time to replay the video to enhance the learning
experience.
Delineate
the connections between the different generations of
families interviewed with forestry, and with the land.
Review
the role of European settlement and transportation in the
early phases of logging.
Create
a glossary of logging terms used in the video. These terms
include choker, grapple, rigging, yarder, delimber, loader,
tower, skidder, steam donkey, and splash dam, as well as
gyppo and bull whacker.
Keep
track of changes in logging technology, as delineated by
the program.
Focus
on values that can be learned from the lifestyle of the
logger. Consider, for example, the risks taken, hard work,
dependability, responsibility, and enjoyment of the
outdoors. Are there particular values that you want to
enhance in your life?
 John Rice's quote "it's hard
work...I like that"
Elaborate
on the statement, We need wood.
Tarrah Rice's quote "We need wood..
it's important we don't log everything"
Give
a description of a clearcut from a loggers perspective and
from an environmentalists perspective.
Eric Evenson's quote "We have
to harvest it all just like a farmer"
Differentiate
a tree farm from a forest, second growth from old growth. Describe
the requirements for regenerating Douglas-fir versus ponderosa pine.
Contast
corporate logging with that done by a small operator. What does it
mean when a logger says that he's not cut out for corporate logging?
Note
changes in the diameters of logs shown on log trucks since the early
days of logging in Oregon. What are the implications of these changes
for the mills? For the forests? For future generations of Oregonians?
Discuss
the evidence given that loggers are not out there to destroy the
environment. How does this relate to the statement that they nowadays
take everything, even material that was left as brush in the past?
John Rice's quote "We take everything
now right down to a toothpick"
Emphasize
the increased relative importance of federal timber after World
War II.
Describe
the impact of changes in public policy on logging in Oregon (e.g.,
the they've shut most of that down reference to federal timber), and
the reasons for the changes.
Consider
reasons for leaving trees for future generations.
Thomas Shaw's quote "I would like
to see another five generations.."
Review
the perspectives given for the future of logging in Oregon.
Chris Rice's quote "The future
is cloudy"
Create
a collage from magazines and drawings of your view of loggers, and
logging operations. Does your view differ now from what it was prior
to watching the program? If so, in what ways?
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