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Chicago was the center of the lumber industry because of its location. Chicago being so close to Lake Michigan made it the center of receiving lumber that arrived from other places by streams and rivers and this was the only way to transport lumber before the railroad system. However, Chicago would lose its status as the center of the lumber industry with the railroad expansion and Southern timber, which had yellow pine, becoming more popular. William Cronon

In 1848, New England commercial whalers crossed through the Bering Strait to hunt bowheads for their blubber. Foreigners wanted to transform Beringia and in the process people rearranged land, altered the lives of whales, walruses and more wildlife, and dammed rivers. Beringia