This display at the Boundary County Historical Society and Museum shows springboards, which were used as a sort of scaffolding, allowing the loggers that were felling the tree to get higher up the tree to avoid imperfections.
Photo by Tanna Yeoumans
February 22, 2018
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Logging a big part of area history
BONNERS FERRY — The logging industry has been a part of Boundary County since the early 1900s. With the rise and fall of the economy over the decades, the industry has adapted and grown to new and more innovative techniques and the utilization of more advanced equipment developments over the past century.