Join guest speaker, Paul Fagley, at the Environmental Learning Center for a look back one hundred years ago when Pennsylvania received a “lumberman’s shave.” Penn’s Woods has always been an important resource in Pennsylvania. Today, the state is the largest hardwood producing state, but would you believe that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, PA holds the distinction of having the longest period of steady output of timber in the country? What was behind this little-known story of Pennsylvania, when lumber production approached 2 billion board feet every year! View actual film footage of virgin hemlock logging in 1926 in this fascinating trip back to the old-time logging industry of Pennsylvania
