Colville tribes race time to log charred lumber

COLVILLE INDIAN RESERVATION — It’s a stickpin skyline: fire-blackened trees without leaves, needles or even branches as far as the eye can see.

The quiet is deathly, until an 18-wheel logging truck roars out of the blackened woods. James Griffin hops out of cab of his logging rig. He strides past the towering tires and throws his weight into tightening the chains on a full load of ponderosa pine logs, some 3 feet around, that he is trucking out of the burn.

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