A turn of the century, hulking piece of machinery that helped quicken the pace of logging in the Pacific Northwest was dedicated to a Amboy museum Saturday, concluding a project nearly two decades in ...

Hundreds of North State school children did battle last week with a 12,000-pound hissing, clacking, fire eating piece of ancient machinery — and of course they lost. But since it was only a tug-of-war ...

Two of the oldest operating steam-powered locomotives, both used for logging on the North Coast will be in operation for Dolbeer Donkey Days, taking place Saturday and Sunday at Fort Humboldt State ...

FRITZ: I DON’T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU OWKN THIS, BUT A GUY FROM THIS TOWN NAMED JOHN THGHOU ERBE INVENTED THE STEAM DONKEY. IMPRESSED? YOU SHOULD BE, BECAUSE THIS INVENTION REVOLUTIONIZED LOGGING IN ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

Dolbeer Donkey Days, the annual celebration of an invention that revolutionized the timber industry in 1881, will take place at Fort Humboldt in Eureka this Saturday and Sunday. “This is a long ...