Although unused north of Prescott, the track continued to be maintained by the railroad for possible reuse when second growth timber was harvested.
It is increasingly grown in plantations where the long, straight, fast growing trunks are more valuable than the old growth timber.
Paul Lennon has claimed that the wood supply agreement "will not provide for any old growth timber to be used in the pulp mill."
Many parcels of old growth timber were stripped of their largest trees.
Most of old growth timber on Caspar Lumber Company lands had been cut by 1947.
The extensive stands of old growth timber, which had attracted many of the early settlers to the area, were completely logged over by the 1950s.
After the depletion of the old growth timber in the area in the 1970s, the railroad was torn up.
He gestured towards the second- growth timber at the edge of town.
The logging company has slashed a road through the forest to get at the old growth timber.
Thousands of acres of old growth timber had been logged at the turn of the 20th century.