D Gary Young : The Essential Oils Baron
Founder of global company has deep roots in North Idaho
Out there in the British Columbian wilderness, out among the towering hemlock and tamarack where he felt at home, a logger named Gary Young labored happily. The year was 1973.Maneuvering atop 12 feet of snow on showshoes, Young plied his trade meticulously, using a cutting method that would create a domino effect of falling trees, calculated carefully to crash directly away from him.
One did not.
“A tree came back and drilled me through my snow shoes like a post,” Young says. “Later they told me that when they found me, the snow shoes were up around my crotch.”There the unconscious Young was encased in Canadian snow, dying.
And there Young Living was being born.It was a painful birth.