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Second Growth Redwood Cutting Experiment, Project #688, Big River, Mendocino County, California. View showing how second growth logs are pulled from the cars to the roll-way. The stern wheel river barge is equipped with a drum which was pressed into this service. This barge is used for towing rafts of logs from the dump to the mill and for bringing back heavy supplies. E. Fritz, May 1923

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Title: Second Growth Redwood Cutting Experiment, Project #688, Big River, Mendocino County, California. View showing how second growth logs are pulled from the cars to the roll-way. The stern wheel river barge is equipped with a drum which was pressed into this service. This barge is used for towing rafts of logs from the dump to the mill and for bringing back heavy supplies. E. Fritz, May 1923
Creator: Fritz, Emanuel
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Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bioscience & Natural Resources Library
Collection: Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection
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Description: Location: average distance
Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable
Group picture, names unknown
Type: image
Identifier: fritz_metcalf-4544
Subject: Studies - Redwood cutting experiments
Rivers - Big River (Calif.)
Barges
Sequoia sempervirens - Second growth
Log transportation - Barges
University of California - Forestry - Experimental areas
Redwood Project #688
Plots - Big River Cutting Plot
Sequoia sempervirens
Mendocino County
Place: Mendocino County

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