Rivermen work on a log drive at Beecher Falls, Vt., at the north end of the Connecticut River in this photo, circa 1900. Vermont Historical Society The news shot through the North Country faster than ...

The story of Idaho’s Clearwater River Log Drive and what caused it to abruptly end. For over forty years, the North Fork of the Clearwater River would be crammed with logs. The timber was destined for ...

Cover illustration by Nicholas Strekalovsky. Last April, 20 men of the St. Regis Paper Company of Bucksport drove 4½ million board feet of white and red pine logs down the Machias River. For two weeks ...

An examination of Maine's log drive, wood harvesting and paper-making legacy. Log drives down Maine rivers were once a common sight but the last such drive in America occurred here in 1976, which is ...