You will also learn how technology changed the logging business and how new advances in tools and machinery greatly increased the amount of timber harvested each year. Unfortunately, increased efficiency did not translate into a safer work environment for the workers. At a time when there was no workman's comp or health insurance, for them, injury and mortality rates among lumberjacks were much higher than workers in other industries. Mr. Kind will pull no punches when he speaks of the greed of the early lumber barons as they cut and cleared all of our original pines forests, destroying wildlife habitat and leaving a desolated landscape behind with no thought of the future and the needs of generations to come. Their practices would also lead to the worst wildfires in the history of our nation. These wildfires resulted in the complete destruction of a number of communities and the tragic loss of many lives, leading to the passage of new laws regulating the lumber and forest industry. If want to learn all about the early logging industry and the colorful lumberjacks who performed almost super-human tasks, risking life and limb to harvest timber, this is the presentation for you. This is the real story of Paul Bunyan and the lumberjacks.