26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods

26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods

Jacob Miller - September 24, 2017

26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
US Army Spruce Division soldiers sitting on a stump, c. 1918. Photo- Gerald W. Williams Collection: OSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Two loggers with a felled tree. Photo- Gerald W. Williams Collection: OSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Loggers on a Cedar stump near Deming, Washington, 1905. Photo- NARA
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
The Redwoods have survived along the northern coast of California for around 20 million years and are linked to tree species that lived 160 million years ago. The tallest trees reach heights of around 350 feet (107 meters). thevintagenews
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Loggers with felled trees. Photo- Gerald W. Williams Collection: OSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Standing by a Sequoia log in California, c. 1910. Photo- Library of Congress
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
The length and breadth of the tree trunks are highlighted by the men, who are dwarfed by the tree’s sheer size. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Dramatic photos show the measure of a man in contrast to the enormity of nature. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
After logging on Vance’s Mad River. The man in the center of the picture shows the height of the tree trunks in comparison to him. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
A team of horses pulls a number of logs along after the redwoods have been felled. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
A team of oxen helps out in the first part of the logging process. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
The densely forested northern California area accounts for twenty percent of the state’s total forest production and the team of oxen, here, used to remove the enormous logs from the forest for processing. Daily Mail
26 Photographs of the Lumberjacks Who Conquered the California Redwoods
Above, loggers in 1892 standing in the trunk of a tree they chopped down at Camp Badger in Tulare County, California. The tree went to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago the next year. Daily Mail

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