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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513
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We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the West was actually acute and not to have met the demand immediately with every available supply would have seriously handicapped the national development. If private companies had been unable to provide a solution and there had been an appeal to the Government, would the authorities in charge necessarily have placed the conservation of natural resources above the human needs of the emergency? The essential fault perhaps lay not so much with the original all-out cutting as with the lack of a contemporary plan for reforestation.
Vanderbilt, Paul
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Locomotive Trailing Logs
Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew.
Lumber Crew and Train Tracks
1915
Logging company's railroad tracks and construction crew in a forest.
Group with Horse-Drawn Sled in the Timber Lands
1906
Horse-drawn load of 6000 ft. of pine logs, accompanied by a cornet player and two women, at the Weinkauf & Co. timber lands.
Falls of Saint Anthony
1863
Carte-de-visite view of the Falls of Saint Anthony and logs caught on rocks in the falls.
Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215
circa 1960-1969
The log who was made King of Logs is here entombedeight round, ten longFor his design, the strengthened forestcapriciously outgrew them all,outlived the settlers, the sinning, the pure at heart,and...
