2016年5月18日 · By 1900, an estimated one-third of old forest redwoods had been destroyed; by the 1960s, that figure stood at 90 percent. Some of this work was documented in photographs. Here, an extraordinary...

2024年8月8日 · In this article, we’ve collected vintage photos of lumberjacks from the turn of the last century as they looked to make their mark on America using only hand tools. Loggers hold a cross-cut saw across a giant Sequoia tree’s trunk in California. 1917. Lumberjacks undercut a giant sequoia tree in California. 1902.

2012年10月19日 · When gold was discovered in north-western California in 1850, thousands crowded the remote redwood region in search of riches and new lives. Failing in efforts to strike it rich in gold, these men turned toward harvesting the giant trees for booming development in San Francisco and other places on the West Coast.

2024年8月27日 · By 1900, about one-third of old redwood forests were gone; by the 1960s, 90 percent had been destroyed. Some of this logging work was captured in photographs. There are remarkable images showing loggers posing inside a cut tree or …

2016年11月19日 · A famous series of photographs came out during 1915, depicting a number of lumberjacks working on the giant redwoods of Humboldt County, California. This was the time when tree logging was at its peak.

2018年6月17日 · These giant redwoods can live to 2,000 years old and have been on the planet for around 240 million years. Although they were once thriving throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, today redwoods can be only found located on the coast of central California through to southern Oregon.

2018年11月24日 · The logging of the huge and ancient California Redwood forests in the past was certainly not an easy job. The dangerous occupation of felling and delimbing these behemoths of Mother Nature was designated to the famous old lumberjacks.

It is estimated that up to 96% of the redwoods were logged before conservation efforts were needed to keep these wondrous trees. Today, 45% of the remaining redwoods, 38,982 acres of old forest, are protected in the Redwood National and State Parks. Redwoods have been around the northern California coast for the past 20 million years.

2017年1月1日 · Only one original tree remains today, a twisted runt of an old-growth redwood, ninety-three feet tall, growing miraculously out of a rock on a cliff face near Merritt College and probably too difficult to reach, or to catch as it fell, for loggers to bother.

2022年4月11日 · But when settlers entered the area for the gold rush of the 1800’s, they turned to the giant trees to build housing and infrastructure. It wasn’t until the land was protected in 1911 by U.S. Representative John E. Raker, along with land purchases by the Save the Redwoods League, that logging in the area was prohibited.