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Cook Forest State Park is known for some of America's finest virgin white pine and hemlock timber stands and was once called the "Black Forest" due to the preponderance of evergreen tree coverage. Cook Forest is now a National Natural Landmark and was rated one of America's top 50 state parks by National Geographic Traveler magazine.
Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival - Breaux Bridge; Catfish Festival - Des Allemands; The Cochon de Lait - Mansura; Oyster Festival - Amite; International Rice Festival - Crowley; Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival - Cameron; Louisiana Peach Festival - Ruston [2] Strawberry Festival - Pontchatoula; Washington Parish Watermelon Festival - Franklinton
Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America .
An amphitheater, picnic tables, and barbecue pits in the forest and along the lakefront. From the museum, easy walking trails lead to swimming, boating and fishing at White Pines Park, and to a hiking trail all the way around White Pines Lake, passing the site of the old Blagen Sawmill and its log pond.
In 1926 a forest fire destroyed 7 miles of the log flume [17] and in 1927 George Hume sold some of the company's assets. [17] On April 8, 1935, he sold the remainder the company, including the dam and 20,000 acres of land, to the U.S. National Forest Service .
Rafting to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada (August 2006). Raftsmen in Northern Finland in the 1930s Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973).. Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water.
In 1949 the Holt Lumber Company gave the camp to the Oconto Historical Society. The McCaslin Lions Club stabilized and restored the bunk house and cook house in the 1970s. [7] Today it is a museum, with the track of the company's old supply road still visible between the building and the brook. [5]
Cooks was founded in 1883 when John C. Cook built a sawmill at the community. The community was originally named Cook's Mills before being shortened to Cooks. A post office opened in the community on June 28, 1888; Norman McDonald was the first postmaster.