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Tour: 4. Garcia River Historical Photos, 1955 and 1962 Logging |
Click on image to enlarge (109K).This photo shows Darwin Christiansen's logging operation in the Garcia River basin taken by Robert Lee in 1962. A "966" loader boosts a log onto the truck trailer of Al Stinson's log truck. Photo provided courtesy of the Held-Poage Memorial Home and Robert Lee. L-#08580 Lee.
Click on image to enlarge (89K). Click here to display a larger version (216K).Notes from Robert Lee: "Truck mounted heel boom loader loading butt cut on log truck for transporting to Hollow Tree Mill in Ukiah. Anderson Brothers logging show along the Garcia River in 1962. Robert Lee driver of the truck #6 which is loading." Note also that the log being loaded is a redwood at least four feet in diameter and that hillslopes are eroding at upper left. Photo provided courtesy of the Held-Poage Memorial Home and Robert Lee.L-08576 Lee.
Click on image to enlarge (109K).This photo shows the tremendous ground disturbance associated with post WW II logging in the Garcia River basin and other California North Coast watersheds. Notes from Robert Lee: "Anderson Bros. Logging show, Garcia River 1962. 46-A bringing in a skid. "A" grade logs went to Hollow Tree mill, Ukiah. "b" logs went to Fred Holmes mill in Gualala. All the salvage went to Aborigine Stud Mill, Fort Bragg". Photo provided courtesy of the Held-Poage Memorial Home, Ukiah, California, and Robert Lee, L-08579 Lee.
Click on image to enlarge (77K).This picture shows an Anderson Bros. log truck driven by Robert Lee in the Garcia River basin in 1962. The load includes an old growth log of at least four feet in diameter. Robert Lee described this as a: "Typical load of two bunk logs and one large butt-cut log." Logs were destined for the Hollow Tree Mill in Ukiah. Photo provided courtesy of the Held-Poage Memorial Home, Ukiah, California, and Robert Lee, L-08578 Lee.
Click on image to enlarge (58K). Click here to display a larger version (363K).This photo shows a logging road built on top of an emphemeral stream course in the Signal Creek sub-basin. Note the rills and gullies forming on the road, which has a high risk of stream capture, where the stream might actually jump onto the road and wash away massive amounts of fill. Photo taken by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1955.
Click on image to enlarge (142K). Click here to display a larger version (304K).This close up shot shows a stream course buried in logging debris in the Signal Creek sub-basin taken by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1955. Large amounts of redwood bark slash often clogged channels and sometimes created local problems with dissolved oxygen during low flow periods.
Click on image to enlarge (112K). Click here to display a larger version (156K).This photo shows a California Department of Fish and Game warden in the middle of a huge amount of slash burying a stream somewhere in the Garcia River basin. The caption on the slide read: "Garcia River, stream debris, 11/3/54." The slide was stamped with "1979" and "slide duplicate", indicating that it was reproduced from a 1954 original in 1979. This photo is from the archives of Center for Education and Manpower Resources (E-Center) of Ukiah, provided to KRIS by Joe Scriven.
Click on image to enlarge (74K). Click here to display a larger version (174K).The California Department of Fish and Game warden at upper left views the total inundation of a stream bed somewhere in the Garcia River basin with logging slash. The stream course would be in the lower areas at right. The caption on the slide read: "Garcia River, stream debris, 11/54." The slide was stamped with "1979" and "slide duplicate", indicating that it was reproduced from a 1954 original in 1979. This photo is from the archives of Center for Education and Manpower Resources (E-Center) of Ukiah, provided to KRIS by Joe Scriven.
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