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Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania: Tanbark, alcohol and lumber
Author: Pennsylvania Lumber Museum
Author: Robert CurrinPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811729659
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A century ago, the forests of northcentral Pennsylvania provided white pine and hemlock timber for much of the United States, and the region boasted two of the world's largest sawmills.
The Agony of an American Wilderness
Author: Samuel A. MacDonaldPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742569683
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Allegheny National Forest exists on what might have been the most heavily exploited landscape in the history of civilization. Careful stewardship over the last eight decades has transformed it into a beautiful forest that contains countless wildlife species and some of the world's most valuable timber. Local communities are steeped in pride for having written that unprecedented environmental success story. Unfortunately, the Allegheny is now the focus of a caustic new timber war that will ultimately test the limits of American environmentalism. No longer satisfied with protecting the pristine old growth that captured the national imagination in the early 1990s, activists have embarked on campaign to put an end to the Allegheny timber program. Litigation and protests have shaken the region for a decade. More recently, it has become a hotbed of eco-terrorism. But restoring the Allegheny to something activists accept will be far more difficult, expensive, and explosive than setting aside a few million acres for the northern spotted owl. This book examines the communities caught in the middle of that political crossfire and forces Americans to decide if they are ready to accept the new activist agenda: In their own words, 'If we can stop logging on the Allegheny, we can stop it everywhere.'
Report on the Marketing and Use of Lumber
Author: National Committee on Wood Utilization (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer
Author: Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
Author: Ronald E. OstmanPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer
Author: Survey of Nonutilized Wood in Virginia. 8th Report of the National Committee on Wood Utilization
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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