Sentence examples for timber town from inspiring English sources

Bend was a struggling timber town, "a desolate place," he recalled.

Seldom since then has Golden, a fraying timber town in southeastern British Columbia, entertained such dreams of grandeur.

Page 18 RELYING ON BARLEY AND HOPS Bend, Ore., formerly a struggling timber town, experienced an economic revival after several craft beer breweries arrived and flourished.

The Canadian city of Nanaimo, in British Columbia, has been a scrappy outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company, a coal mining center and a timber town.

"Yes, we manage forests at a net loss for the taxpayer," said Bob Weinstein, the mayor of Ketchikan, a timber town at the southeastern tip of the state.

Tacoma, which is about 40 miles south of Seattle, has been a military and timber town for most of the last century.

Out on the Olympic Peninsula, these currents have hit timber towns like a whack from a two-by-four.

A year later, the Northwest Forest Plan came into effect, protecting around 20 million acres of federal land from logging, and offering financial compensation and job retraining to the timber towns.

The economy has been in worse shape before in Oregon -- the recession in the early 80's devastated the timber towns -- but the budget problems seem more intractable now than they've been in living memory.

Indeed, in tiny Idaho timber towns like Orofino on the fringes of the giant Clearwater National Forest in west-central Idaho, where the Konkolville Lumber Company owns the mill, a steakhouse and motel, it is almost impossible to find anyone who favors the ban on building roads.

In many of the depressed mining and timber towns of northeastern Washington, a strong summer season helps people survive the economic slowdowns in winter.