1940 Photo: Reforestation Efforts in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region
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1940 Photo: Reforestation Efforts in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region
This photograph from the National Archives shows two scientists on a culm bank near Hazleton, Pennsylvania in April 1940. As the anthracite industry waned in the mid-20th century, efforts began to reclaim the scarred landscape back to healthy forests throughout the Coal Region. Original caption: “Mr. R.D. Forbes, in charge of the anthracite survey [of the Forest Service], and Mr. Carl Ostrom, soil expert, examining pitch pine and gray birch grow…
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