Keywords: log scaling
Item 100989
Scaling on the upper landing, Crooked River, 1939
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Media: Photographic print
Item 100974
U.S. Forest Service log scaler, Bear Pond, 1939
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Waterford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
Exhibit
Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 1 of 3
"… a draft contract which gives an idea of the pay scale of those days, each laborer was to be paid $1.75 per day for a nine-hour day; a double team…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3
"… and during one flood, the boom chain that held logs broke, and the logs washed over the dam during high water, smashing nearly every window in the…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
