Author: Alfred Geer HempsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving
Author: Alfred Geer HempsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving
Author: Alfred Geer HempsteadPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598479747
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving, 1825-1931
Author: Alfred Geer HempsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving
Author: Alfred Geer HempsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
History of the Lumber Industry of America
Author: James Elliott DefebaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Development of Log Transportation in the Lake States Lumber Industry, 1840-1918
Author: William Gerald RectorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumbering
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Logging and Lumbering in Maine
Author: Donald A. WilsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738505213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Known as the Pine Tree State, Maine once led the world in lumber production. It was the first great lumber-producing region, with Bangor at its center. Today, the state has nearly eighteen million acres of timberland, and forest products still make up a major industry. Logging and Lumbering in Maine examines the history from its earliest roots in 1630 to the present, providing a pictorial record of land use and activity in Maine. The state's lumber industry went through several historical periods, beginning with the vast pine and spruce harvests, the organization of major corporate interests, the change from sawlogs to pulpwood, and then to sustained yields, intensive management, and mechanized harvesting. At the beginning, much of the region was inaccessible except by water, so harvesting activities were concentrated on the coast and along the principal rivers. Gradually, as the railroads expanded and roads were constructed into the woods, operations expanded with them and the river systems became vitally important for the transportation of timber out of the woods to the markets downstate. Logging and Lumbering in Maine traces these developments in the industry, taking a close look at the people, places, forests, and machines that made them possible.
A Lesser Hartford Wit, Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1771-1798
Author: Marcia Elizabeth Edgerton BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Maine Library Bulletin
Author: The President's Salmon
Author: Catherine SchmittPublisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608934101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Every spring, for thousands of years, the rivers that empty into the North Atlantic Ocean turn silver with migrating fish. Among the crowded schools once swam the King of Fish, the Atlantic salmon. From New York to Labrador, from Russia to Portugal, sea-bright salmon defied current, tide, and gravity, driven inland by instinct and memory to the very streams where they themselves emerged from gravel nests years before. The salmon pools and rivers of Maine achieved legendary status among anglers and since 1912, it was tradition that the first salmon caught in the Penobscot River each spring was presented as a token to the President of the United States. The last salmon presented was in 1992, to George W. Bush.That year, the Penobscot counted more than 70 percent of the salmon returns on the entire Eastern seaboard, yet that was only 2 percent of the river's historic populations. Due to commercial over harvesting, damming, and environmental degradation of the fish's home waters, Atlantic salmon populations had been decimated. The salmon is said to be as old as time and to know all the past and future. Twenty-two thousand years ago, someone carved a life-sized image of Atlantic salmon in the floor of a cave in southern France. Salmon were painted on rocks in Norway and Sweden. The salmon’s effortless leaping and ability to survive in both river and sea led the Celts to mythologize the salmon as holder of all mysterious knowledge, gained by consuming the nine hazelnuts of wisdom that fell into the Well of Segais. The President's Salmon presents a rich cultural and biological history of the Atlantic salmon and the salmon fishery, primarily revolving around the Penobscot River, the last bastion for the salmon in America and a key battleground site for the preservation of the species.