Piles of trimmed raw timber logs awaiting shipment from a timber yard near Eureka, California.

Piles of trimmed timber logs awaiting shipment from a timber yard near Eureka, California. According to the American Forest and Paper Association, California has 99, 599 acres of logging forest with the Forestry and logging industry employing 5, 640 workers earning a payroll of $122, 670. But recession has brought about a slump in the need for house-building materials and many have lost jobs though this industry still features large in the local and state economy, though in diminished form from the past.