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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.
Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. [9] In later years Ojibwe people dominated the area along with much of northern Wisconsin, [10] until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, when they ceded it to the U.S. [11]
In 1967 Northern States Power sold the land to the Wisconsin Conservation Commission for a state park, and stabilized the dams at a financial loss. The state park opened in 1971. Some of the dams were removed in the 1990s to improve the scenery and trout fishery, and now only one remains. [3] The land is still being restored from damming and ...
The Holt and Balcom Logging Camp No. 1 in Lakewood, Wisconsin was built around 1880 in what was then timber along McCaslin Brook. It is probably the oldest lumber camp in Wisconsin still standing in its original location, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [2]
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]