WEST PARIS — An outstanding collection of books celebrating the Maine woods is on display in the West Paris Public Library’s conference room. These books are on loan from the Maine State Reference Library, to compliment the current exhibition of historical logging photographs from the Bethel Historical Society.

The Maine State Library collection will be at West Paris until Thanksgiving, and can be borrowed by library members. The collection’s titles are far ranging, including logging, conservation, early woodworking tools, paintings, railroads and more.

Library hours are Mondays and Fridays, 1:30 to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays, 1:30 to 7; and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The logging photo display will continue until mid-October.

The books on loan from the Maine State Library are: “Timberrr…A History of Logging in New England,” “From Logs to Lumber: A History of People and Rule Making in New England,” “The Encyclopedia of Wood,” “Life Among the Loggers,” “Logging in the Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant,” “The Forests of Maine, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Information Digest,” “The Backyard Lumberjack: The Ultimate Guide to Felling, Bucking, Splitting, and Stacking,” “Early Logging Tools,” “The Economic Impact of the Proposed Maine Woods National Park and Preserve,” “Saving Maine: An Album of Conservation Success Stories.”

Also, “Lumberjacks of Northern Maine: A Series of Newspaper Articles from the Bangor Daily News about 1929,” “Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry,” “Tall Trees, Tough Men,” “Pork, Molasses, and Timber: Stories of Bygone Days in the Logging Camps of Maine,” “History of the Maine Woods,” “A History of Lumbering in Maine: 1820-1861,” “A History of Lumbering in Maine: 1861-1960,” “J.E. Henry’s Logging Railroads: The History of the East Branch & Lincoln and the Zealand Valley Railroads.”

Also, “Logging Railroads of the Saco River Valley,” “Logging Railroads of the White Mountains,” “Anatomy of a Conflict: Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests,” “A Forest Environment,” “Whose Woods These Are: The Story of the National Forests,” “American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree,” “The Northern Forest,” “Brush Cat: On Trees, the Wood Economy, and the Most Dangerous Job in America,” “Woodsmen, Horses, and Dynamite: Rough Pulpwood Operating in Northwestern Maine, 1935-1940,” “Christmas Tress for Pleasure and Profit.”

Also, “The Fall of the Forest: Tales of the Last Generation,” “Forestry Department Golden Anniversary: 1903-1953,” “Tote Roads and Memories: The Story of a Real Maine Woodsman,” “The Northeast’s Changing Forest,” “A Re-enchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature,” “A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization,” “Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America,” “Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II.”

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