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Klamath County History Resources

Timber Industry

  • Railroad Logging in the Klamath Country (2003), Jack Bowden. The standard work on railroad logging in the Klamath Basin.  
  • An Oral History of Winema National Forest (1981), Royal G. Jackson and Jennifer A. Lee (Heritage Associates, Inc.). A series of interview transcripts about uses of the Winema National Forest/Klamath Reservation timberlands by various groups, including loggers, ranchers and native peoples. 
  • And Then We Logged (2002), journal issue published by the Shaw Historical Library. A series of articles and a photographic essay examining the history of the timber industry in the Klamath Basin.  
  • Lumbering in Klamath (1944), W. E. Lamm. A look at the timber industry in the Klamath Basin to the early 1940s by a prominent local industry figure.