Image Gallery - Pennsylvanians and the Environment
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Old Growth Forest
Original forests in Pennsylvania consisted... |
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A logger files his saw, Leetonia, Tioga County.
Logging in Pennsylvania peaked in the latter... |
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Felling a Giant
Two loggers at work taking down a giant Hemlock... |
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The Susquehanna Log Boom, Williamsport, PA, 1890.
Completed in 1851, the Williamsport Log Boom,... |
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Loading Logs for the Mills
After 1880, the introduction of the logging... |
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Skidding Logs
Where the terrain was too rough or remote... |
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Lumber Camp
Lumber workers were housed in temporary wooden... |
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Stripping Bark
Hemlock trees were stripped for their bark,... |
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Waiting for Skidding
After Hemlock trees were stripped of their... |
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"A Forest's Remains," somewhere in Pennsylvania, 1918.
The Pennsylvania timber industry was a foraging... |
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Skidway of more than 3,000 logs, unidentified location in Pennsylvania, circa 1890.
To prepare logs for transport by logging... |
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Logs Arrive by Train
Logs arrive by train to the sawmill at Laquin,... |