Local Features

Looking Back at Winter Logging


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With winter officially beginning last Friday, Gary Entz tells us about winter logging this week as part of our continued series A Northwoods Moment in History. During the timber industry’s heyday of the nineteenth century, logging was a seasonal activity. Loggers would migrate to the Northwoods in the fall, cut timber through the winter months, and during the spring thaw use the flooding rivers to float the logs to market. A smaller crew would remain to work through the summer, but many loggers
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