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D23151-4
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- 1946-07-30 (Creation)
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Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A young logger, carrying an adze, inspects the base of a newly cut old growth douglas fir. Roots are sticking up around the log where they were torn when the tree was felled. Douglas fir was named for David Douglas, a young Scotch botanist who arrived in Astoria, Oregon, April 9, 1825. The mammoth tree was found at 1,050 feet elevation, west of Packwood on the timber holdings of the Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, where a cross section of the tree was displayed until 1965. The diameter of the stump measured out at 13 feet 4 inches, a record size. (TNT 8/21/1946, pg. 1; "The Plywood Age", Robert M. Cour) TPL-3234
Forests--Washington; Logs; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950;