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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
The La Crosse Loggers are a La Crosse, Wisconsin based baseball team playing in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. Since the team's inaugural season in 2003, they have played at Copeland Park. The ballpark is nicknamed "the Lumberyard." [1] [2] The team is owned by Dan Kapanke, a former Wisconsin state senator. [3] [4] [5]
The dam functioned until 1910, when logging operations ceased. It washed out in the 1920s. [7] The current hydroelectric dam was built in 1950 by the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company, [7] producing the current Holcombe Flowage. The flowage is a popular recreation area, and the shores are thick with homes and cottages.
Copeland Park, also referred to as "The Lumber Yard", is a stadium in La Crosse, Wisconsin, US. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the La Crosse Loggers baseball team. The current stadium was built in 2003, although a substantially smaller baseball diamond existed at the site before the construction of the new ballpark.
Logging began in the late 1850s. Loggers came up the rivers and floated white pine logs out in spring and early summer log drives, down the Big Rib River into the Wisconsin River, down the Black River to the south, and west down the Jump and the Yellow River into the Chippewa. Log-drives continued until around 1900, when the easy-to-float white ...
Games. Health. Home & Garden ... Wisconsin loggers hope new cooperative effort can help industry after mill closures. Gannett. Becky Jacobs, Appleton Post-Crescent. March 12, 2024 at 6:05 AM. A ...
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Knapp, Stout, and Co. had a major impact on Northern Wisconsin. The large lumber company brought the SS and Omaha railroads to northern Wisconsin. They also created many logging camps that turned into small towns. Birchwood is located where it is due to the Birch Lake lumber camp, and the crossing of the Soo and the Omaha railroads. [7]