Forest Removal

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The effects of the timber industry are visible in this photograph taken from the Chattooga River, at the mouth of the Tallulah River. During the late nineteenth century, extensive logging in southern forests threatened the fragile ecosystem of the Chattooga River watershed.

Courtesy of Mars Hill College, Appalachian Room Archives, Gennett Collection.

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