The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests

Illustrations

Illustrations 50 Sailing ships taking on lumber on the Bangor waterfront 62 Working from a batteau to keep logs moving 99 Tug pulling a huge pocket boom of logs on Long Pond in the Upper Raquette drainage 104 The Williamsport boom filled with logs 153 Rafting Lumber down the Wisconsin River 176 Steamboats with log rafts on the Mississippi 200 Log sleigh in the Minnesota woods 230 Big wheels with longleaf pine log 237 Felling old-growth longleaf pine 259 John Henry Kirby Addressing the Brotherhood of Timber Workers 264 Loggers in old-growth Douglas fir 278 A 7,300-ton steamer leaves Coos Bay in 1915 bound for China 315 Log train crossing a crib trestle in Oregon’s Coast Range 319 Skyline logging on a Weyerhaueser operation in western Washington 354 Fageol double-compound truck with ponderosa logs from the Klamath forest 360 The Brooks-Scanlon sawmill and lumberyard in Bend in 1930 ...