My name is Terry Carlson. I was born in a little town in Snohomish County Washington called Granite Falls. It is a small town with rural Washington values. I was born into a logging family; in fact, I am a fourth-generation logger. I started my career in logging right out of high school. I always knew I wanted to be a logger, so while the rest of my peers went off the college, I was getting up at 3AM every day to go cut logs. It paid well, and it allowed me to travel throughout the Pacific Northwest. I logged in Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Canada. I lived in Forks, Washington until 2009, when I met and married my wife.

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My wife had 2 daughters from a previous relationship, and I had a daughter from a previous marriage. We married, blended our families and moved to Anacortes, WA where we lived until 2017. Once our oldest kids graduated from school and went off to college we found ourselves moving to Longview, WA where I began working for Weyerhaeuser as a processor operator. This was my first union job. It was the first time I had health insurance, good pay, and benefits like paid time off.