Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: Durchforstung, Forest management planning, forest operations, logging, Logistik, Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, thinning

LOWELL, Ore. — Booming timber towns with three-shift lumber mills are a distant memory in the densely forested Northwest. Now, with the housing market and the economy in crisis, some rural areas have never been more raw. Mills keep closing. People keep leaving. Unemployment in some counties is near 20 percent.