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Today’s lumberjacks are better paid, and they are apt to live longer, but their exploits pale beside those of old-fashioned "river hogs."
those of the old-fashioned “river hogs”

It has been called the Redwood Empire, and it stretched along Northern California's fog-shrouded coast, but its reign is imperiled.

It has been called the Redwood Empire, and not many years ago it stretched unbroken for 450 miles along the wet northern coast of California.

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