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Beginning in the 1880's, the Southern Appalachian mountains became the scene of a major logging boom which continued until the 1920's. Logging was introduced as a way to provide an export of a natural resource for monetary gain.

Log camps were usually on site of where lumber would be cut and loaded. Then the timber would be transported to sawmills and cut down to make furniture.

Other advanced methods of logging are swamp logging and helicopter logging. These methods are quite dangerous considering they can gather more timber at a time.

You usually don't see helicopter logging around the Appalachia but swamp logging is common.

Wood industry jobs now require highly skilled people and provide lifetime occupational employment for those who want meaningful productive work. Altogether, the basic forest industries of the Appalachian region employ more than 50,000 people, with payrolls generating millions of dollars. Thus, you can see the forests of this region play and important part in the daily economic lives of residents.

WORK CITED:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.etsu.edu/cass/archives/Subjects/Hardwoods/Images/G.E.Davis/

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grahamcounty.net/GCHistory/11-logging/loggingdozer.jpg&image

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grahamcounty.net/GCHistory/11-logging/modernloggingtruck.JPG&imgrefurl

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grahamcounty.net/GCHistory/07-stecoah/yellowcreeksawmill.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.grahamcounty.net/GCHistory/07-stecoah/

http://www.etsu.edu/cass/archives/Subjects/Hardwoods/

http://www.appalachianwood.org/forestry/appalachian.html

http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Publications/region/8/history/chap1.aspx

Skidders were used to haul a few logs at a time to another location.

Other equipment used to log were trackhoes and skidders.

Trackhoes were used to excavate land, so loggers would have land to put the logs in piles and to have a good work area.

Saws and axes were used to cut trees.

This was a dangerous method because the logs were huge and had to be drug for distances.

Different tools used to cut trees were axes and saws.

Different methods of gathering lumber are commercial clear cutting and silviculture. Clearcutting is for economic growth. It is the most common method used today.

Yellow Creek Sawmill

Railroads opened up vast tracks of Appalachian timber to the industrial northeastern and Midwestern portions of the United States, who were suffering from depletion of their own forest resources. Large logging and lumber companies moved into West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to exploit these rich resources. American hardwoods, in particular, were much prized both in our own country and in Europe. Commercial interest in Appalachian timber in turn encouraged railroads and logging firms alike to secure control over this bountiful regional resource as they moved through the area.

Early logging was done by horses, oxen, and mule.

Logging camps were used by loggers who couldn't be home for long periods of times

LOGGING IN THE APPALACHIANS

By: Jeff Vickers

Graham County, North Carolina was one of the last places in Appalachia to be harvested because of its dense forests and rough terrain.

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