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# Sitka Spruce and Rosie the Logger
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/sitka-spruce-and-rosie-the-logger-yyajfg/
- Published: 2024-05-22T17:30:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:29.000Z
- Description: How wood helped fight two wars, and the timber women who also answered the call.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 9, Episode 7, #ZZZ_Episode_9441b455-ae45-4ab7-a003-3c9783b3e02c, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

How wood helped fight two wars, and the timber women who also answered the call. WWI transformed the Northwest timber industry as the U.S. military took charge to ensure the supply of Sitka spruce for building airplanes to fight the Red Baron. Women were tapped to work in the woods during both world wars, the so-called “Lumberjills,” and spruce again was drafted to help fight the Nazis.