Image ID:  FHS5348
Image Date:  [no date]
Image Title:  Felling.
Image Caption:  Caption 1: Felling a ripe Idaho white pine, Fishhook creek operation, Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Camp 44, near Avery, Idaho). Faller works alone, using a chain saw. Note how he has dug down in snow so as to cut the tree close to ground. Snow shovel, at left, is one of his tools. Snow mark on bark indicates drift level.

Caption 2: Using one-man chain saw, faller here is about to topple a ripe old Idaho white pine. Note snow level on tree trunk, showing how workman has dug down around base of tree so as to make his cut close to ground and leave low stump. Camp 44, Potlatch Forests, Inc., 10 miles south of Avery, Idaho.
Photographer:  [unknown]
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.