Loggers face massive cleanup from Wisconsin storm

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/business/129241353.html



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During nearly 50 years in the logging business, Max Ericson has seen trees - lots of them - blown down by the wind. What took place this summer in parts of Wisconsin's North Woods, though, shocked him.

"I've never seen our forests so devastated as they are now," said Ericson, owner of Ericson Logging in Minong. "It's going to impact the timber industry for a least a couple generations."

Across a swath of northwestern Wisconsin, an estimated 2 million cords of wood - $160 million worth by one estimate - are on the ground, blown down during a severe thunderstorm in July.

"We've had blow-downs before, just nothing this size," said Henry Schienebeck, a third-generation logger and executive director of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association in Rhinelander.


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[brewens]

1. I flew over Mt. St. Helens the fall after it blew. It was a geology

club trip in a twin engine cascade Airlines plane and they took us down real close. The blowdowns farthest away from the blast looked a lot like that.

[geckosfeet]

2. Looks like a pine stand. Not good firewood. They use it for building though.

[Scuba]

4. Yep. It'll end up as 2X4's, plywood and paper. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Climate change had nothing to do with the intensity of the storm. " - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

"Smirk." - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

[Lorien]

5. They only talk about it in terms of $$

losing forests hurts us all; they're the lungs of the planet.

[mfcorey1]

6. Looks like jobs to me. nt