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In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2015

Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013

Last month Hatfield and Governor Neil Goldschmidt convened a meeting of lumbermen, environmentalists and federal officials to try to forge a logging plan that would be fair to both sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

West Coast lumbermen fault him for not easing restrictions on their operations in federal lands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown