The Northwestern Lumberman was a nineteenth-century American monthly trade magazine devoted to the lumber industry.

Over the years it grew in size and scope, with several name changes, and still exists today.

The magazine was first published in Bay City, Michigan, in 1872 as the first lumber trade paper in America, called the Lumbermen's Gazette.

The magazine had a subscription list of about 25,000 and sold an additional 5,000 copies over the counter.

[2][5][6] The originally monthly magazine form published in 1873 through 1875 of eight to twelve pages was changed in 1876 to a sixteen-page weekly periodical.