Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources
Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources

How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks

How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 4
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.97

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    agency, evenings, logging, species, mining, opposite, sawmill, timber, warning, seconds, direction, rented, rugged, fastest, rush, northern
     content words:    Umpqua National Forest, Oregon Country, Fort Vancouver, Ewing Young, Willamette Valley, Paul Bunyon, Wildlife Service, Federal District Judge William Dwyer

Print How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks
edHelper.com subscriber options:
     Print How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks  (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)
     Quickly print reading comprehension
     Print a proofreading activity

Feedback on How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks
     Leave your feedback on How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks  (use this link if you found an error in the story)

How an Owl Stopped The Lumberjacks
By Sandra Marttinen 		  
1     The owl sat on the tree branch watching as the lumberjacks came closer. Suddenly, the men put down their axes. Even the huge machines that could cut down a tree in 90 seconds, stopped. The men and machines left the forest. The owl had won a fight to keep men out of his habitat.
 
2     In Oregon's Umpqua National Forest, lumberjacks had been cutting down 200-year-old trees 190 feet tall. As acre by acre of the trees were cut down, the forest animals would leave the area to find another home. What had happened to make these men stop cutting down the trees?
 
3     Lumbering began in the Oregon Country in 1827 at Fort Vancouver. At first, most of the lumber was sent to Hawaii. Ewing Young built the first sawmill in the Willamette Valley. He knew that many settlers would need lumber to build their houses in this area. Some of the farmers rented or sold their land to the sawmills. The cleared land was an

Paragraphs 4 to 9:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable
Copyright © 2007 edHelper