Jill's Journal: Logging is a big deal in this area. I wish I could convey how massive these piles of logs are – literally many thousands of tree trunks making piles that each stretch up several stories high and together are a few football fields long. And these are not your average-sized logs. I’ll bet 20 men working together couldn’t budge a single one of them without massive machinery.
It is said an average redwood tree --not an extra-giant one, but a regular one-- contains enough lumber to build 22 substantial-sized homes.
Years ago, “company towns” sprung up around the redwoods. Scotia is one that remains. Developed and built in the 1880s by the Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia is centered around a mammoth sawmill. Hundreds of identical homes were built for employees and a town was born. Today, it remains a company town. There’s been some restructuring in the company and it was only five years ago that the company began the process of letting individuals buy the homes for themselves.
There’s so much to see in this country of ours, so many different ways of life. I love that our girls are growing up getting to see a smidgeon of what’s out there.
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