'Idaho Experience' recaptures final log drives on the Clearwater River | News
BOISE â In early-1900s Idaho, timber was king. The supply of coveted western white pine seemed endless. To the newly arrived Weyerhaeuser family, it was as if money grew on trees. Although Idaho forests promised jobs, the work of cutting timber and transporting it to the mill in Lewiston across rugged, roadless mountains would take innovation and hard work. North Idahoâs Clearwater River would serve as a channel to transport the valuable timber in annual log drives that would span a half century. Idaho Public Televisionâs original series Idaho Experience takes viewers along for...
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