High Climbers and Timber Fallers

Now in its final printing, High Climbers and Timber Fallers by Jerry Beranek is a wonderful book that captures the final days of old-growth logging in Mendocino County, northern California – from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. 

Those were the good old days. They really were. The economy was strong, jobs were plentiful and the pay was fair. A working man could afford to buy a home, and new pick-up truck on wages. A hundred dollar bill would feed a family for a week, and a routine visit to the doctor, for a couple of stitches, was under $40.  Life couldn’t have been better for the American working man and his family. 

Those were also the days of 35 mm cameras and film photography. Jerry's preferred choice of films in the day was Kodachrome. Paul Simon wrote a happy song about Kodachrome film having “nice bright colors.” Remember that? For old-tech Kodachrome film worked really well, and it’s what made this book. 

Through the pages of High Climbers and Timber Fallers you’ll be following Jerry through the lens of his old Nikon camera over 50 years ago in coastal northern California’s timber industry.

This book chronicles an era in Mendocino County logging history by capturing the timber fallers, rigging slingers, high climbers, logging boss’s, and some really big old redwoods. The last old-growth redwoods still standing in the corporate timber-lands of Mendocino County.