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Wall Street Journal
27-07-2025
- General
- Wall Street Journal
The Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry Hopes for a Trump Bump
SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash.—This slice of southern Washington is home to some of the most lush and productive timberland in the world, carpeted by Douglas fir and hemlock from the slopes of Mount St. Helens to the Columbia River Gorge. The local lumber industry has shriveled nonetheless. Sawmills have been closing across the Pacific Northwest over the past 30 years. There is just one left in Skamania County, down from six during its logging heyday.
Washington Post
28-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
In ‘detention alley,' a small town benefits from a big ICE facility
WINNFIELD, La. — The 21st century has been tough here in timber country, especially in the small town of Winnfield. Sawmills automated and jobs disappeared. An interstate extension bypassed the area. The population fell by nearly a third. Downtown storefronts emptied. One positive: the low-slung brick complex, with razor-wire-topped fencing and a white-steepled chapel, that sprawls southwest of town amid a forest of longleaf and loblolly pines.
