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No one at the time could for see the erosion that canels would cause especially cross canels 😇

Sadly most of the really old and large trees had been loged out by the 1920's

Those guys were "wirery" as hell. Not an ounce of fat on them. I'm sure lack of testosterone was not an issue.

Sound?

My dad was 14 and his brother 16 when they went to work for a logging company near Pierre Part, LA. Almost all of their generation and the previous generation in my family worked as swampers. The town I grew up in, Plaquemine, LA, had at least nine different sawmills, shingle factories, cooperages, and an oar and paddle factory when the harvesting of the cypress was in its heyday. Large rafts from the Atchafalaya Basin were towed to Grand River and Bayou Plaquemine for processing. The swampers and riverjacks were dirt poor and just trying to feed their families. They were paid just enough to eke out a living. The people who got rich were the landowners and the mill owners.

Do we know any of the names of the people in the film?

The damage this has done to our wetlands is irreparable.

You wouldn't believe it but the pc game "Norco" got me here. Tells about "pull-boats" which got me curious and now I'm in absolute awe. Thanks for sharing this old material! And cheers from Germany o/

too bad we dont have trees like this any more due to the selfishness of the previous generation

No more cypress forests.

sad just plane sad why does man find any kind of satisfaction in destroying

BACKwoods slavrey ?

Let’s be honest! They should have replanted

LOL SJW types crying about logging 100 years ago. This is a swamp tress go back. Think about this, a swamp in the Deep South, not exactly a vacation spot.

Atrocities against nature - everything to make a buck - to this day many of those areas are still bare and treeless - to this day.. sometimes i am ashamed to be part of the human race.. the most destructive off all.. God was insane whenhe created our kind to destroy his world.

Hi my family owned the town of Morley in West Baton Rouge Parish. I wonder if this is footage from Port Allen/Morley Louisiana ?

Thank you for posting. Absolutely amazing history!

And this is why we have no more ivory billed woodpeckers...

fuck that dude in the comment before me duck hunting out of wat yal call a canoe is way harder then it looks chuck Norris ain't got shit on a man who can push pole a cypress log out da marsh

@ least they videoed the destruction of the virgin cypress swamps for us to see...

great cut down the trees

anyone know where the video of the cocordrie lake loggers is?

Being a firetender in Louisiana, wow. Tough dude

Nice footage,but I think this is from the 40's,the quality of the image can't be from the 20's.

My grandfather was a dredge boat operator around this time for a mill in Donner, La. Amazing that I knew someone in an industry like this. Explains why my father worked so hard to get multiple college degrees.

I love the steam engines.

Great videos on Louisiana swamp logging near Patterson, LA.

Wow chopping trees while standing in a canoe.....agility!

Its pretty sad. I live near marpaus swamp and its on its last leg because of what they did 100 years ago. Most of the trees they cut down nvr grew back and turned into marsh. U can still see alot of the stumps with axe marks on them out in the lake. And theres old trees they cut down littering the bank of pontratrain that broke free of the rafts.

very rare to find a big enough cypress to make a dug out these days. my great great grandfather did this (well owned the land to do this ). people back then were just tryin to make a buck "The Old People" were so poor most of their kids shared a single pair of church shoes. But as a (half) Houma indian I don't think they needed to almost kill all the big cypress swamps. it takes thousands of years to naturaly grow to a nice size cypress swamp.

in Louisiana most of us were pretty good friends with the Cajuns (except for a bit of racism) but we became "civilized" in the mid to late 1800's. Im half Houma indian but im still a native so my opinion counts as far as "native" goes cause I am in the tribe. I say that cause most people say cause im half I have no "voice" (Just Saying)

Very good. Thanks for the upload.

It must be pointed out that you, as much as anyone, is the cause of what you see as the problem. You use forest products in nearly ever part of your life. You use other products with reckless abandon that come from fields that were once old forests. Your "home", your furniture, clothing, food, MEDICINE, and energy are in part from the forest! Forests also pay the most in taxes in product life cycle. Without those men you wouldn't exist. Name 5 everyday products you use not related to forestry.

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Ahhh yes, you said the key words "the people who [held] power". Brian I could not agree more! I spent much of my time in college studying history and should get another degree in the subject. The loggers were are are much still great men. The issue truly is with those who hold power. Every single mass "rape" of the land as with every genocide and famine the world has seen since before the fall of the Romans is 100% the fault of big government. Yeah even the deal with the indians....

Given their placement in the cosmos I'd say they were the most wise in the use of the land. Where were the "brilliant" ideas back then? They were the unwise. They could only think of doing nothing. Turns out to be the "wise" thing to do these days too. Those logging men deserve our reverence. What man today is equal? Far fewer in number I promise.

SUPER, BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

@Sherman22ish Probably around Lake Marapaus or Lake Pontchatrain. Manchac swamps have never been the same since the cypress logging of years ago.

Amazing stuff. Those were men. No radio or entertainment much. No escape from the heat. Alligators had to be a concern. I can't believe anyone would wear a suit out there. You know it was the hotter part of the year down there. Wild.