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Good point Dean, the farm owner had some storm blowdowns. I'll keep that in mind next time I take a B&W.
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12-14-2018, 07:33 AM | #4 | ||||||
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With how hard people worked back then, if they did have chainsaws there wouldn't be a tree still standing.
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If there is an upside to the wholesale cutting of the forests it is better habitat for most animals including game birds as most do not live in mature forest but along edges. Just a bit of history from my point of view.
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Look at this crew of loggers and you can see some of what they used back in the day. Thomas
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most people do not realize there hardly was a tree left- by the beginning of the 20th century 2/3 of the forest in the US had been removed - i have a photograph of Losey Hill from that period - looking down the valley and there is hardly a tree insight, now days it nearly all woodlands. The Catskills were denuded, a fact bemoaned by the earliest trout conservationists. Log rafts were built on the ice and floated down the Delaware in the spring. If you go to the Adirondack's museum in Blue Mountain Lake they have a logging exhibit that shows all but the most rugged areas of the mountains cleared- I would say it was not the lack of power in the saw that left a few stands but instead the difficult terrain that prohibited getting the logs out. find any old growth in the eastern US and you will see why it was left
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12-14-2018, 03:06 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Frank:Great photo by the way and love those LeFevers
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Back in the day? Those photos are dated today Thomas.
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12-14-2018, 05:54 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Down my way the Long Leaf Pine was king. When Europeans first arrived the long leaf pine forest stretched from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river. They say a squirrel could travel from the East Coast to the banks of the Muddy Waters and never touch the ground. They also estimate that there were about 100,000,000 Wood Ducks. (There were a lot of beaver ponds that no longer exist). Only a small fraction of the virgin Long Leaf Pines remain and there are now about 2,000,000 Wood Ducks. But we're trying to do our part. Planting Long Leaf and putting up Wood Duck boxes every where we can.
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