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Caption: Marker detail: Logging company "slash"
Additional Description: Logging companies built railroads into the forests of Appalachia to remove valuable timber. Mountainsides were stripped of trees, and tangles of branches and woody debris—known as slash—were left on the ground. Sparks from trains and logging machinery could ignite the slash, resulting in destructive wildfires.
Submitted: September 18, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p445705
File Size: 2.824 Megabytes

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