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Owning a red flannel and an ax won’t magically transform you into Paul Bunyan. That’s why we asked the professionals performing at this year’s Lumberjack Festival (September 30 through October 1 in ...

In 2012, I spent a season on a wildland firefighting crew based just outside California’s Sequoia National Park. Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile ...

The sounds of my attempt to chop the long log in half echoed off the canyon’s rock cliffs like gunfire. I wasn’t having success because I was using a smaller axe with a narrow head. It was the wrong ...