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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 ).
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 ...
This stopping place served loggers, trappers and rivermen with a saloon downstairs and sleeping rooms upstairs. [5] [6] In 1917, when logging waned, the place became a demo farm for Faast's Wisconsin Colonization Company. Now believed to be the oldest surviving structure in Sawyer County.
A forwarder stacks logs for pick-up on Monday, October 24, 2022, near Minocqua, Wis. Timber Professionals Cooperative Enterprises is working to provide some stability for loggers in the industry.
The Apple River was once an important route of trade for the logging industry; timber was floated downstream from logging camps in the north to a sawmill in Amery, Wisconsin where it was cut, loaded onto trains and transported throughout the region. Today, the river generates tourism revenue through recreation and resorts, attracting 500,000 ...
The Round Lake Logging Dam is a historic dam on the south fork of the Flambeau River eighteen miles east of Fifield, Wisconsin, United States, where the river flows out of Round Lake. [1] This earth and timber dam was originally built around 1880 to help lumber companies drive logs down the Flambeau River to sawmills around Eau Claire and ...
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]
$38.5 billion family net worth in 2024; based in Racine, Wisconsin Wisconsin-based Johnson family owns S.C. Johnson , which has an estimated revenues of $10.5 billion.