Peeling Back The Bark
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The Monongahela at 100: How Its Signature Event Changed American Forestry
By Guest Contributor on April 30, 2020The Monongahela National Forest was established on April 28, 1920. Historian Char Miller has adapted a chapter from the book America’s Great National Forests, Wilderness & Grasslands, with photographs by Tim Palmer (Rizzoli, 2016), to mark the centennial. The banner headline on the front page of the Elkins, West Virginia, newspaper for November 8, 1973,…