Articles from the August 23, 2014 edition

Aug 23, 2014

Busloads of tree planters By Finn J.D. John The fleet of buses glided through the ghost of a forest — a forest of silver snags, like millions of weatherbeaten masts of old sailing ships sticking up out of the earth. It was 1949, just ten years after the second Tillamook Burn had ravaged the land anew, and it was showing few signs of recovery on its own. Which is precisely why these buses full of children from the James John Grade School in Portland were here: To do something about that — to help the land recover. They would be...