Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of the fire hazard in the shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...
Petersham, Mass., Sept. 23: With all hands kept busy clearing roads, there has been little time to make a survey of the damage to the Harvard Forest as a whole. However, this whole region has been very hard hit, with extensive areas of timber completely levelled...
...Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupière, help determine the outcome of the struggle...
...East drowned, the Northwest prayed for rain. From Mt. Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests. In ten days, 17,000 acres of National Forests had burned and thousands more burn every day. Near Ryderwood, Wash., 35.000 acres of timber went up. Dry electric storms were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were...
...making is a film on the Harvard Forest, which the staff of the Petersham Forestry School will use to supplement its teaching and in lectures to county agents, state foresters, and owners of timber land. Contemplated are a series of short films on Harvard activities outside Cambridge to show alumni the geographical extent of the University...