A chip off the old block

Our family over the years had a strong relationship with Potlatch Forests Inc., who had mills in Potlatch and Lewiston. I only found out recently that my father also had ties with PFI. A distant cousin whose grandfather headed the Lucas logging operation had some documents that showed that.

The Lucas brothers Ralph, John (my dad) and Omer had a logging operation near Bovill, Idaho. They were cutti...