Clear-Cutting Forests Leads to Environmental Problems
Click on the images below to view a larger image. To help you see as much as possible from these photographs, use the tool "Reading a Photograph." The first ten photographs are used courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives. The last photograph was taken from the JAHA archives.
Original Pennsylvania forest before clear-cutting |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
Clear-cutting forests for lumber |
The hillsides above Cambria City in the 1880s had far fewer trees on them than they do today. |