LOG DRIVE ON THE CONNECTICUT A native of northern Vermont, ROBERT E. PIKE has been a farmer, a lumberjack, a surveyor, an American army officer, a professor of ancient and modern languages, and a ...
Rivermen work on a log drive at Beecher Falls, Vt., at the north end of the Connecticut River in this photo, circa 1900. Vermont Historical Society The news shot through the North Country faster than ...
Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachronism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used. In the summer and winter in Idaho’s panhandle, lumberjacks floated ...
Is this a real tree? Yes, it’s a real, fallen giant sequoia tree. It fell naturally across the Crescent Meadow Road in 1937. Instead of removing it entirely, a section was cut out to allow cars to ...
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The story of Idaho’s Clearwater River Log Drive and what caused it to abruptly end. For over forty years, the North Fork of the Clearwater River would be crammed with logs. The timber was destined for ...
'Boss Jim' Fitzgerald, right, Dick Mann, left, and a dog proudly stand in front of the Restigouche River during the log drive. In 1937 the Telegraph-Journal sent their star reporter Ian Sclanders up ...
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They say that in the old days lumbering was wasteful; the lumbermen would fell a tree and perhaps take only one good log out of the middle, leaving the other two to rot. Today, the red-shirted, ...
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