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[[George W. Sears|George Washington Sears]], an early [[Conservation ethic|conservationist]] who wrote under the pen name "Nessmuk", was one of the first to criticize the Pennsylvania lumber industry and its destruction of forests and creeks.<ref name = "dillon N">{{cite book | title = Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon: A Natural & Human History |last = Dillon | first = Chuck |edition = 2nd |publisher = Pine Creek Press |location = Wellsboro, Pennsylvania |year = 2006 | chapter = Nessmuk: The Voice for Conservation | pages = 31–32 }} (No ISBN)</ref> In his 1884 book ''Woodcraft'' he wrote of the Pine Creek watershed where <blockquote>A huge tannery ... poisons and blackens the stream with chemicals, bark and ooze. ... The once fine covers and thickets are converted into fields thickly dotted with blackened stumps. And, to crown the desolation, heavy laden trains of 'The Pine Creek and Jersey Shore R.R.' go thundering [by] almost hourly ... Of course, this is progress; but, whether backward or forward, had better be decided sixty years hence.<ref name = "woodcraft">{{cite book | title = Woodcraft | author = Nessmuk (Sears, George Washington) | chapter = CHAPTER VI Camp Cookery—How It Is Usually Done, With A Few Simple Hints On Plain Cooking—Cooking Fire And Outdoor Range | url = http://www.zianet.com/jgray/nessmuk/woodcraft/chapter06.html |publisher = Forest and Stream |location = New York |year = 1884 |edition = 1920 }} Retrieved on September 30, 2008.</ref></blockquote> Nessmuk's words went mostly unheeded in his lifetime and did not prevent the clearcutting of almost all the virgin forests in Pennsylvania.<ref name = "dillon N"/>
Sears lived in [[Wellsboro, Pennsylvania|Wellsboro]] from 1844 until his death in 1890, and was the first to describe the Pine Creek Gorge.<ref name = "nessmuk">{{cite web | url = http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886 | title = PHMC: Historical Markers Program (Tioga County) | publisher = Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission | access-date = October 10, 2010 | archive-date = March 21, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160321225956/http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He also described a trip to what became Leonard Harrison State Park and the view west across the gorge to what became Colton Point State Park: after a {{convert|6|mi|km|0|adj=on}} buggy ride, he had to hike {{convert|7|mi}} through tangles of fallen trees and branches, down ravines, and over banks for five hours. At last he reached "The Point", which he wrote was "the jutting terminus of a high ridge which not only commands a capital view of the opposite mountain, but also of the Pine Creek Valley, up and down for miles".<ref>Quoted in {{cite book
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