Contributed by National Archives at Boston
Description
The yarding of logs--dragging cut trees through the forest from their stumps to a landing in preparation for transport to a mill--was one step in the salvage logging process conducted by the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration in the aftermath of the New England Hurricane of 1938.
About This Item
- Title: Yarding logs, Norway, 1939
- Creator: U.S. Forest Service. Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration.
- Creation Date: 1939
- Subject Date: 1939
- Location: Norway, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: NAID #5313453, Box 2, 35/16/7
- Collection: Record Group 95: Records of the U.S. Forest Service; Records Related to Timber Salvage, 1938-1941
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Log transportation
- Horses--Logging
- Lumber industry--Maine--Norway
- Maine Forestry District
- Draft animals
- Lumber industry--Maine--Norway
- Logging--Maine--Norway
- Loggers--Maine--Norway
- Brown Company
- Teamsters--Maine--Norway
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