Bright Pictorial Heritage 1850 to 2011

Forestry

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1950 Plantations from Tower Hill Lookout

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1936 School children planting pines

The first pine plantation came to the area during 1913 to utilize dredge tailings from mining activity and to combat the spread of the weed St John’s Wort. 

Sadly, the degraded areas also later became the home of the forever spreading blackberry.

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1929 Pine plantations

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1925 Pine plantations camp

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1950 Pine plantations

Comments welcome, to  Bob Padula