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World War II created an instant demand for lumber to build hangars, barracks, ammunition crates and much more. This jolted awake the depressed timber economy. It also put a new tool in the hands of loggers — the modern, one-man chainsaw — setting the stage for decades of deforestation across the West.

Credits
Producer/Writer: Jes Burns
Narrator: Jes Burns
Editor: Kerin Sharma
Photography: Kerin Sharma, David Owen Hawxhurst, Michael Werner
Graphics: Tony Schick
Production support: Jared Rusk
Additional research: Carolin Jones, Katie Nelson
Additional photography: Prelinger Archive, Seattle Municipal Archives, U.S. Forest Service, National Archives, Library of Congress, archive.org, bquad
Music: FirstCom