The high Rocky Mountain forest was untouched by logging in the 1870s.
Evidence
There no lumberer’s axe has ever rung. The trees die when they have attained their prime, and stand there, dead and bare, till the fierce mountain winds lay them prostrate. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 232
Related
- Giant sierra pines drove the region’s lumber economy (similarity 0.81)
- An untouched primeval forest produces an eerie sadness in human observers (similarity 0.79)
- Trails in the Colorado wilderness were often bear-made routes, not human paths. (similarity 0.78)