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| Description: | Marker at the Uhrenholdt Memorial Forest established by farmer Soren J. Uhrenholdt on land that was part of northern Wisconsin's "Cutover Region." A leader... |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting a disk plow being pulled by a man on a 15-30 tractor in an overgrown area. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across cutover land of a man or young boy driving a horse-drawn mower. There is a tall tree trunk behind the horses. Another man or young boy is stand... |
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| Description: | A field of tree stumps beginning to be overgrown with vegetation. |
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| Description: | Grass meadow with rotting tree stumps, possibly after a fire. |
| Date: | 05 26 1963 |
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| Description: | View of a small forest undergoing cutting operations. |
| Date: | 07 07 1938 |
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| Description: | An International DR-60 motor truck owned by the Lewis Lumber Company hauls a load of logs over a wooden bridge spanning cutover land. |
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| Description: | View of cut-over land to be cleared for farming. |
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| Description: | Man driving Hough Payloader, clearing land and loading demolition debris. Hough became a subsidiary of International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The town buildings in Irma. Many stumps and milled logs are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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| Description: | View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain. |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Department of Agriculture truck with a sign that reads "Safety With Explosives." The truck and workers were part of a crew that blew tree stump... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
| Date: | 05 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Burned cedar stumps in a swamp with a farm in the distance. |
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| Description: | Forest area that once furnished employment for settlers, but through lack of reforestation was considered almost worthless at the time this image was creat... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across clear cut area towards horses grazing near log cabins at Camp One Lumber Camp, north of Chicago Bay. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men and three children standing in a stump-strewn field with a horse-drawn McCormick mower. |
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