North Country At Work

A North Country Public Radio Project

Two-man logging operation in Elizabethtown, spring 2016

Philip N. Jackson IV atop a pile of logs in Elizabethtown

For the last 66 years, Philip N. Jackson has worked as a logger and loved it. This collection of images is from two projects he worked on with fellow logger Jack Pulsifer in the spring of 2016.

Collection Items

Philip N. Jackson IV atop a pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Philip Jackson atop a pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Lumberjack Phil Jackson in Elizabethtown
Lumberjack Philip Jackson in Elizabethtown
A stack of white pine logs in Elizabethtown
A stack of white pine logs in Elizabethtown
A stack of white pine logs on a loader in Elizabethtown
A stack of white pine logs on a loader in Elizabethtown
Logger sitting on a huge pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Logger sitting on a huge pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Philip N. Jackson IV, right, and Jack Pulsifer sit on a pile of large, soft maple logs. They were cut close to the Boquet River. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Phil Jackson.
Two loggers atop a pile of maple in Elizabethtown
Two lumberjacks posing next to a pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Two lumberjacks posing next to a pile of logs in Elizabethtown
Jack Pulsifer on a load of maple logs in Elizabethtown
Jack Pulsifer on a load of maple logs in Elizabethtown
Holding up a chainsaw to a stack of logs in Elizabethtown
Holding up a chainsaw to a stack of logs in Elizabethtown
Lumberjack measuring maple logs in Elizabethtown
Lumberjack measuring maple logs in Elizabethtown