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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Looking Back at Winter Logging
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:02:42
	Publish Date:		2018-12-26 05:00:00
	Description:		With winter officially beginning last Friday, Gary Entz tells us about winter logging this week as part of our continued series A Northwoods Moment in History. During the timber industry’s heyday of the nineteenth century, logging was a seasonal activity. Loggers would migrate to the Northwoods in the fall, cut timber through the winter months, and during the spring thaw use the flooding rivers to float the logs to market. A smaller crew would remain to work through the summer, but many loggers migrated out to the Great Plains to work as agricultural laborers during the logging camps’ off season. Winter was the logging season, and for good reason. The ground was too soft to transport heavy logs overland during the warmer months. Cold temperatures and deep snow is what enabled loggers to reach lower ground. It also made it possible to use teams of oxen to pull sledges and sleighs of cut timber over the frozen terrain. In the earliest years of logging in the Northwoods, a deep snow that
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