All posts tagged "clearcutting"
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11.4K22New HampshireJohn Wingate Weeks, the Improbable Savior of the White Mountain Forests
If you had to guess who saved the White Mountain forests from destruction, you probably wouldn’t come up with a politically ambitious...
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10.0K10New HampshireNew Hampshire Timber Baron Takes the Money and Runs
In 1892,timber baron James E. Henry bought 100,000 acres of virgin timber in Northern New Hampshire and began clear-cutting the White Mountains....
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5.2K5Science and NatureGeorge Perkins Marsh, The Vermont Farmer Who Founded the Environmental Movement
George Perkins Marsh, a little-known Congressman from Vermont, gave birth to the environmental movement in September 1847. On that day he gave...
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