Writing

Magazine Articles

Bill wrote in many logging magazines, especially the Truck Logger and The Lumberman. He wrote an article a month for over twenty years, and he wrote about everything. Below you will find his views on the people, the work, the society and the times he lived in.

Subject Index

Index by Date

		The Truck Logger

	Sept 65	Tomorrow's Logger
	Dec 65a	Boss Logger
	Dec 65b	The Many Faces of a Logger
1970
		The British Columbia Lumberman

	Oct 70	The Forest Around Us
	Dec 70	A Comment on the Industry
1971
	Jan 71	[missing]
	Feb 71	Eighty Years From Now
	Mar 71	Monsters and Malfunctions
	Apr 71	Saltwater Main Street
	May 71	In Search of a Safer Forest Industry
	June 71	Fable – The Enviro Party
	July 71	Loggers Sports Now Official
	Aug 71	And Then There Was Monahan
	Sept 71	On Cooks and Cookhouses
	Oct 71	Life in the Finland Woods
	Nov 71	Production Committees in Finland
	Dec 71	When All Else Fails
1972
	Jan 72	In Spite of Ourselves
	Feb 72	Of Ships and Things and Loggers
	Mar 72	Salt Water Logger- The Boomman
	Apr 72	Wisdom of Youth
	May 72	Bargaining Table Warfare – Forever
	June 72	Is There a Tree in Your Economy
	July 72	An Olympic of Loggers' Sports
	Aug 72	The Bunkhouse Logger
	Sept 72	The Trees That Didn't Fall Last Summer
	Oct 72	The Men and Trees of Chicootimi
	Nov 72	Quebec - A Walk in the Forest
	Dec 72	I Remember Jeppy
1973
	Jan 73	The Plastic Forest - A Fable
	Feb 73	What We Need is Damn Good Common Sense
	Mar 73	How to Sell A Forest
	Apr 73	The Lovely Forest Co. - A Fable
	May 73	The Logger's Hiring Slip
	June 73	Here Come the Loggers
	July 73	Ontario is Ready for loggers' Sports
	Aug 73	Let's Clean up our Saltwater Main Street
	Sept 73	You Got One, Sam!
	Oct 73	Forest – Slash - And The Public
	Nov 73	Oil Spills and Booming Grounds
	Dec 73	Christmas and the Float Camps
1974
	Jan 74	T I MBER ! - Down Under
	Feb 74	Fiber Reserve # 7 – A fable
	Mar 74	Allowable Waste – A Philosophy
	Apr 74	Oh! To be a Small Logger
	May 74	Steam Donkeys I Have Known
	June 74	Toronto and the Loggers
	July 74	The Town That Vanished
	Aug 74	Management vs. Labour - A Fable
	Sept 74	The Jerk-Wire Whistle Punk
	Oct 74	Getting to Know You
	Nov 74	Walking Loggers Become Rare
	Dec 74	Bigger, Better and Other Fairy Tales
1975
	Jan 75	Safety Will Become The No. 1 Issue
	Feb 75	The Challenge
	Mar 75	Talking to the Trees
	Apr 75	Coldecks, A-Frames and Memories
	May 75	Teachers of the Trees
	June 75	Day in the Life of a Chokerman
	July 75	The Lakehead and the Loggers
	Aug 75	Of Mice and Loggers
	Sept 75	Hiding behind Stumps
	Oct 75	1st Chapter, "The Time of Molly Hogan."
	Nov 75	Big is Beautiful
	Dec 75	Living on the Back Forty
1976
	Jan 76	I Need a Whatnot For a Gizzmo
	Feb 76	Executive Sweet
	Mar 76	Heroes of the Hemlock
	Apr 76	A Day in the Life of a Logging Camp Manager
	May 76	It Happens Every Spring
	June 76	The Contractor Clause
	July 76	Is It True That They Desecrate the Forest?
	Aug 76	Finland at Mid-summer - 1976 Part I
	Sept 76	Finland at Mid-summer – 1976 Part II
	Oct 76	Of Boomcats and Fingerlinks
	Nov 76	The Time Machine
	Dec76	Christmas Gift Suggestions For Loggers
1977
	Jan 77	Lest we Forget – 1971 – 1975
	Feb 77	Support Your Local Logger
	Mar 77	The Gyppo
	Apr 77	Is it True What They Say About Tourism?
	May 77	The Language of the Tree
	June 77	The Good Ship Maquinna
	July 77	The Class of '77
	Aug 77	Death and Taxes
	Sept 77	An All 'Round Man
	Oct 77	Loggers Sports in Europe - Part I
	Nov 77	Loggers Sports in Europe – Part II
	Dec 77	A Cookhouse Christmas
1978
	Jan 78	How Great in '78
	Feb 78	That A-Frame Was a Dandy
	Mar 78	Hot Tubs – Blue Movies and Loggers
	Apr 78	It's Confusing!
	May 78	The Enemy – The Chain Saw
	June 78	You've Got to Know the Territory
	July 78	Ah Summer!
	Aug 78	Fifty Years of Contract Logging – Part I
	Sept 78	Fifty Years of Contract Logging – Part II
	Oct 78	Fifty Years of Contract Logging – Part III
	Nov 78	Public Relations
	Dec 78	Christmas Gifts to a Forest Industry
1979
	Jan 79	The Discipline of Safety
	Feb 79	The Old Ordered Changeth
	Mar 79	Higher Rigger
	Apr 79	My Friend Oscar
	May 79	About Pride
	June 79	The Dedicated
	July 79	Moving the Steampot
	Aug 79	The Plastic Forest - Repeat
	Sept 79	Stick – In – The - Muds
	Oct 79	The Indispensable Man
	Nov 79	The Loggers Holiday Adviser
	Dec 79	Christmas '79
1980
	Jan 80	Logging Supervision
	Feb 80	Goodbye Old Logger
	Mar 80	The Forest Center Project
	Apr 80	If I Were King
	May 80	We Must Remember
	June 80	Salt Water Mainstreet – Revisited
	July 80	Never The Twain Shall Meet
	Aug 80	The Professionals
	Sept 80	Let Us Now Praise The Flunky
	Oct 80	Norway – and the Forest Workers I
	Nov 80	Norway – and the Forest Workers II
	Dec 80	A Christmas Letter to Jonathan
1981
	Jan 81	The GasBoat Days
	Feb 81	How to Invent a Forest Industry
	Mar 81	Safety and the Negotiating Table
	Apr 81	On the Selling Neckties to Loggers
	May 81	How to Sell A Forest
	June 81	Chestnuts in Blossom
	July 81	A Trip to the Black Forest
	Aug 81	The Shape of Things to Come
	Sept 81	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Forestry...
	Oct 81	The Blacksmith Shop
	Nov 81	Safety – A Ray of Hope
	Dec 81	A Christmas Carol – Logging Camp Style
1982
	Jan 82	The Declining Forest
	Feb 82	Good Times – Bad Times
	Mar 82	Max's Story - Part 1
	Apr 82	Max's Story – Part 2
	May 82	Be a Sport – a Loggers Sport
	June 82	[missing ]
	July 82	A Trip to the Big Smoke
	Aug 82	[missing ]
	Sept 82	Who Pays!
	Oct 82	I Knew a Logger
	Nov 82	Looking Back – to Look Ahead
	Dec 82	Christmas Shut Down
1983
	Jan 83	Conventions I Have Tasted
	Feb 83	[missing ]
	Mar 83	Contractor Dilemma
	Apr 83	Martin and the Small Bunkhouse
	May 83	Interview – The Forest Center Project
	June 83	The Bloom of Europe – May '83
	July 83	[missing ]
	Aug 83	Goodbye Old Cookhouse
	Sept 83	Let's Expo-se the Forest Industry
	Oct 83	Have Saw Will Travel – Finland
	Nov 83	[missing ]
	Dec 83	Christmas Memories
1984
	Jan 84	Accident Prevention – A Different Approach
	Feb 84	Super Loggers
	Mar 84	Where Have All The Old Boys Gone?
	Apr 84	The First Logger
	May 84	Grad – '84
	June 84	A Year of Living Dangerously
	July 84	The Road Building Logger
	Aug 84	[missing ]
	Sept 84	Forestry – 2,000 AD
	Oct 84	The Way We Were
	Nov 84	Sweden – on the Road Again
	Dec 84	[missing ]
1985
	Jan 85	There are These Problems
	Feb 85	[missing ]
	Mar 85	To Heck With High Tech
	Apr 85	Sad Waste Continuing!
	May 85	[missing ]
	June 85	The Boys Called Him Goldie!
	July 85	[missing ]
	Aug 85	Forest Education – Now or Later
	Sept 85	A Birthday for Festival of Forestry
	Oct 85	The Forestry Revolution
	Nov 85	Man – Catchers
	Dec 85	The Bullcook's Christmas
1986
	Jan 86	Four Billion Seedlings
	Feb 86	Forestry Attitudes
	Mar 86	Intensive Forestry & the Environment I
	Apr 86	Intensive Forestry & the Environment II
	May 86	Heroes of the Hemlock – Repeat
	June 86	The Right Stuff
	July 86	The Inlet
	Aug 86	What's Going On!
	Sept 86	The Expo Logger
	Oct 86	Future Forestry Shock
	Nov 86	Pencil Pushers I have Known
	Dec 86	A Loggers Christmas Card
1987
	Jan 87	A Dark Era