The story of Idaho’s Clearwater River Log Drive and what caused it to abruptly end. For over forty years, the North Fork of the Clearwater River would be crammed with logs. The timber was destined for ...

Rivermen work on a log drive at Beecher Falls, Vt., at the north end of the Connecticut River in this photo, circa 1900. Vermont Historical Society The news shot through the North Country faster than ...

For the Black River logging industry in the 19th century, springtime was time for a drive. This drive was not a pleasant outing in the country — it was a cold, wet and dangerous movement of logs ...