Ever wondered how humans have managed to say goodbye to America’s giant trees without all those petrol-powered chanisaws? Well, it was defintiely a different life, and different trees to fell. Can you find the bear?
Lumberjacks pose with a Douglas fir tree in Washington, 1899. IMAGE: CORBISLoggers hold a cross-cut saw across a giant Sequoia tree’s trunk in California, 1917. IMAGE: A. R. MOORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBISTwo workers pose with tools used in logging operation. IMAGE: Humbold Redwoods ProjectLoggers and a 10-mule team prepare to fell a giant Sequoia tree in California, 1917. IMAGE: A. R. MOORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBISLoggers stand in the trunk of a tree they chopped down at Camp Badger in Tulare County, California. The tree was logged for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. IMAGE: CORBIS
Lumberjacks pose on the stump of a tree which was displayed at St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904. IMAGE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESSThe Humboldt Northern #2 engine on the Strawberry Creek Trestle, north of McKinleyville, with the engine house (near Baird Road) in the background. IMAGE: HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY
Lumberjacks float lumber down the Columbia River in Oregon, c. 1910. IMAGE: UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD/CORBIS
Over 100 people stand with a logged giant sequoia tree in California, 1917. IMAGE: A. R. MOORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
