Logging Shaped This Landscape

Logging Shaped This Landscape. . , Logging was one of the most significant impacts on the natural landscape on the western side of the San Jacinto Mountains. Beginning in 1875 and lasting through the early 1900s, a number of logging camps and mills were established in the mountains. Large stands of ancient, old growth forests were harvested by the uncontrolled logging. , The logging boom was fed by the need for railroad ties for the Southern Pacific Railroad being laid in the San Gorgonio Pass, shipping crates for the citrus industry, and houses for the steadily increasing valley population. , Today, remnants of two logging camps and at least one lumber mill site have been identified in the western portion of the park. Much of the park landscape shows the scars of logging - cut tree stumps, logging roads and trails, and abandoned machinery. , Dedicated in 1937, Mount San Jacinto State Park was the culmination of over forty years of private and public attempts to preserve the San Jacinto wilderness from uncontrolled exploitation. , second marker: , Commemorating Mt. San Jacinto State Park 50th anniversary 1937-1987 and Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942. CCC companies 913 and 974, Camp Idyllwild. Inland Empire Ch65 NACCCA. Plaque donated by Mt. San Jacinto Natural History Assn. May 30, 1987.