Josh Aitken, Working in the Woods Today

I photographed Josh Aitken in 2008, as part of a book I did for BenWest Logging. Josh is now working in the Terrace region as a faller.

These photographs are part of the research and development of Working in the Woods Today, a book growing out of the Coastal Forest Industry Project. For more information about the book, review the posts on this blog www.coastalforestindustryproject.com or visit the project page on Facebook.

To help make this book happen, please visit http://j.mp/od6FZz and make a small contribution online.

Thanks for taking a look!

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Draft cover, Working in the Woods Today

This is a mockup of what the cover might look like for Working in the Woods Today when it's published. The image is a collage made from many of the large photographs currently on display at the Campbell River Museum (until April 22, 2012).

For more information about the Working in the Woods Today project, please visit the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/WorkingInTheWoodsToday

To help make this book a reality, please make a contribution at j.mp/od6FZz.

(cc) hanspetermeyer.ca / 2012. I STRONGLY encourage non-commercial sharing

of my materials (blogs, fotos, audio, etc). PLEASE tell me how you use them

at bit.ly/hpm-useME

hanspetermeyer
22 March 2012

Sarah Mukai in Johnson Bay, Rivers Inlet (Part 2)

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Sarah Mukai is a forester with Interfor, based in Campbell River. In this, my second interview with Sarah, she talks about what got her, as a young woman growing up in Vancouver, into BC's forest industry. We were sitting on the barge next to a floating camp in Johnson Bay, just off Rivers Inlet on BC's mid-coast region. This camp was in place to host a crew of "brushers" - people who go into a regenerating forest and "weed" the new forest of species that limit the growth of trees. I was in the Johnson Bay area in mid-August 2011, taking photographs and talking to people working in the woods. For more on the Coastal Forest Industry Project, please visit www.CoastalForestIndustryProject.com. To help build the book I'm working on, please visit http://j.mp/HELPbuildtheBook. Thanks for your interest!
hanspetermeyer

Related articles

• Official Opening invitation - February 18, 2012 (coastalforestindustryproject.com)
• Drafting sample pages for Working in the Woods Today (coastalforestindustryproject.com)
• Sarah Mukai talks about her career in forestry, part 1 (coastalforestindustryproject.com)

Drafting sample pages for Working in the Woods Today

I'm working with a friend to put together some sample draft pages of what Working in the Woods Today might look like. Here's one that I'm imagining would start a section on forestry engineering in first growth mid-coast forests. Stay tuned as I post a couple of others over the coming weeks.

Sample page. The final product may look significantly different from this.

To get an up-close look at some of the images we'll be using for the book, please drop by the Campbell River Museum exhibition. It's open until April 22, 2012.

hanspetermeyer
20 March 2012

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• Sarah Mukai talks about her career in forestry, part 1 (coastalforestindustryproject.com)