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A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) crew member poses behind a broken oak sapling and young pine tree.

View of a clearing in the forest with a mountain in the background and a wood hut.

'A cutover area on National Forest lands Piney Knob. Sale in Macon County approximately 60% of volume was removed young vigorious growing trees remained. Note vigorious fast growing yellow poplars in the foreground.'

The upper limbs of a dogwood tree with berries in early Spring.

(1 of 4) Inside the Cradle of Forestry Visitor Center, a family examines the displays regarding Nineteenth Century America.

A giant poplar in Big Creek Valley in the moment of its death. The tree was about 125 feet tall.

A group of American Forestry Association (AFA) and North Carolina Forestry Association (NCFA) members including Joe Ennis of Asheville and Howard Doyle of Statesville, N.C. looking over the book 'North Carolina Lands' by Ken Pomery. On left is…

Elise Monteith Terrell recalls life in the Pisgah mountains during the 1910s, including the flood of 1916. Her father worked for a railroad and timber company, whilst her mother provided meals for the workmen.

A logger with work horses pulling logs through a clearing in the forest.

A narrow gauge railroad on Pisgah Forest, its wooden rail top-tripped with hickory, is used for conveying logs singly down-hill grade to the portable sawmill. The empty car is brought back by a steer.