This past weekend saw the Lumberjack World Championships take place in Hayward, Wisconsin. The annual event of sawing, chopping, climbing, and log rolling contests celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. While the golden anniversary is cause for celebration, signs of the sport’s decline in popularity seemed to be more evident than ever. A New York [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The Fall of Timber Sports?
Posted in Current Events, tagged historic photographs, logging, lumberjack contests, Lumberjack World Championships, sports history on July 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
July 20, 1822: “Father of American Forestry” Born
Posted in This Day in History, tagged forest preservation, Franklin B. Hough, New York, U.S. Division of Forestry, U.S. Forest Service on July 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On this date in 1822, Franklin B. Hough was born on the western edge of the Adirondack Mountains in Lewis County, New York. Hough would become the first forestry agent of the U.S. government, the first chief of the Division of Forestry, and one of the most influential figures in early American forestry. Gifford Pinchot [...]
Visiting Mann Gulch 60 Years Later
Posted in Historian's Desk, tagged forest fire, Mann Gulch, smokejumpers, U.S. Forest Service, wildfire on July 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I just returned from a trip to Montana, where I conducted an oral history interview with the 15th chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Dale Bosworth. While there, I took the opportunity to visit Mann Gulch, site of the first smokejumper tragedy. There, sixty years ago next month, 13 smokejumpers were killed when a fire [...]
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