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FHS5013th

Image ID:  FHS5013
Image Date:  [no date]
Image Title:  Log jam.
Image Caption:  Thirteen million feet of Idaho white pine are caught in this jam in the Clearwater River in central Idaho. Each spring the Potlatch Forests of Lewiston, Idaho uses the Clearwater River to transport its logs to the mill storage pond. Note growth of young pines covering both sides of the Clearwater River gorge.
Photographer:  Lohr, George, for American Forest Products Industries
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.