Down the road thousands of trunks littered the yard of the regional environment and forestry agency.
The work drew workers and their families to the coast, and massive timber operations sent thousands of tree trunks sluicing down rivers to feed the industry.
A prehistoric forest, an eerie landscape including the trunks of hundreds of oaks that died more than 4,500 years ago, has been revealed by the ferocious storms which stripped thousands of tons of sand from beaches in Cardigan Bay.
Gohler told his American interrogators after his capture that he had found two tin trunks containing hundreds of Hitler's and Braun's letters to each other at Fischhorn, a horse farm near Salzburg where they had been hidden.
Thousands of scorched tree trunks still range up the hillside across the street from Ms. Gursky's new home here, but inside the house, her library is well on the way to recovery.
Six boats hollowed out of oak tree trunks are among hundreds of intact artefacts from 3,000 years ago that have been discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens, the Observer can reveal.
Haddock says that ctenophores are now becoming trendy, in part because they appear to be the sister group of all other animals that is, the earliest clade to have branched off from the main trunk of animaldom, hundreds of millions of years ago.
Helmet camera footage shows hundreds of white plastic bags — stacks of wrapped fish (just "trunks," their heads, tails and guts removed).
