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Remains of Forest Fire Called the Tillamook Burn

2009-3038
Accession Number
2009-3038
5x7 inches (13x18 cm)
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348548948
Related Collection
Watts, Lyle Papers
Keywords
Fires
Forests and forestry
HST Keywords
Oregon
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Credit:
George E. Griffith

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

Photo of the charred remains of one of a series of four or more forest fires known as the Tillamook Burn, which occurred between 1933 and 1951, in the Northern Oregon Coastal Range. Three hundred fifty-five thousand acres of old growth timber were destroyed.

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