A 1923 photo shows the effects of logging and fire on the slopes of Mount Michell, NC

Former forest, now field, covered in logging debris

A 1923 photo shows the effects of logging and fire on the slopes of Mount Michell, NC

1923 U.S. Forest Service image shows how logging and fire turned a forest into a field on the slopes of Mount Mitchell, NC.

Image

Photo By/Credit

U.S. Forest Service/Courtesy of the University of North Carolina at Asheville

Ecosystem

Mountain

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Subject tags

Fires

Forests

History

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