Day: April 30, 2025

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Lock 11 Bridge Dam

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 ... it looks like a DOT highway bridge minus a roadway. The extra chord on downstream side was added in early 1910s when they decided the bridge dams needed further strengthening. Actually, in the case of the Tribes Hill Bridge Dam (Lock 12), it was designed as a Bridge Dam but then the DOT added a roadway to the Bridge Dam 1927. More about the history of bridge dams: americancanalsociety.org/bridge-dams-mohawk-river-barge-canal/

 

Sunday April 27, 2025 — Erie Canal

Lumber Tariffs 🪓

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I am willing to take a wait and see approach on them and see how they impact the industry. Higher lumber prices could reduce waste in home building and construction more generally, and also encourage better management and use of timber lands. It seems like lower cost imported timber encourages a race to the bottom, and often leaves forests that should be managed for both a sustainable harvest and other management goals like wildlife to be ignored. One very under tapped resource is small-land owner timber, as low prices have discouraged many homesteaders and small scale farmers from developing their timber lands not just for firewood but also timber sales.