Peeling Back The Bark
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Remembering Harold Bell, Creator of Woodsy Owl
By James Lewis on December 15, 2009This past weekend the New York Times reported the passing of Harold Bell on December 4 at age 90. Mr. Bell was one of the creators of Woodsy Owl, the Forest Service’s anti-pollution mascot. He was working with agency employees Glenn Kovar, Betty Conrad Hite, and Charles Williams (who gave Woodsy his slogan “Give a…
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Trucks, Tractors, and Swindle Sticks
By Eben Lehman on December 2, 2009Three new photo galleries added to our website today contain more than 250 historic photos illustrating aspects of logging over the past century. The first gallery, Logging–Scaling, documents the work of scalers in the woods. A scaler was the person who measured and marked the quality of timber, and estimated the number of board feet…
