Charcoal Exhibit Trail: Wood - The Essential Ingredient

Historically, woodcutters on the mountain cleared the mountainside to produce cords of wood.

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During the peak of the charcoal indusrty, the mountain and surrounding areas looked very different. Woodcutters cleared most of the trees and the cords of wood produced were burned down into charcoal.