Hume-Bennett Lumber Company
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Hume-Bennett Lumber Company
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The Hume-Bennett Lumber Company was a logging operation in the Sequoia National Forest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company and its predecessors were known for building the world's longest log flume and the first multiple-arch hydroelectric dam. However, the company also engaged in destructive clearcutting logging practices, cutting down 8,000 giant sequoias in Converse Basin in a decade-long event that has been described as "the greatest orgy of destructive lumbering in the hi
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Logging operation in the Sequoia National Forest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume-Bennett_Lumber_Company
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2024-03-04T17:29:56Z
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