This week, the local newspaper announced the results of the timber contracts for logging in the Northern Highlands/American Legion State Forest. In the years 2009-2010, 2673 acres of the NH/AL will be logged, netting the DNR over $2 million.
This is of interest to us, of course, because one of the projects is called "Hwy P Popple" and is the site that you have heard about near Carlin Lake Road and Pinecone Road. The contract for these 31 acres went for $44,274, to Wiitala & Vozka Logging.
Jim Stocker says this company did some logging around Camp Manito-wish a couple of years ago, and are a reliable and careful company. He said he and Bob Ruch especially enjoyed watching the interesting and complicated machines that did the logging.
The paper quotes S. Petersen, superintendent of the forest: "Some people think we pick these harvesting areas out by throwing darts at the board, and the bulls-eye is over Presque Isle at the moment. That's not the case...We reconcile the ecological potential of a stand with our public goals, our social goals for it, and then we make decisions on what we should do."
He continues: "It also provides revenue to the state---I cannot deny that--which is a great thing, especially in times like these."
The article does not give any more information about when the logging will take place, although the original letter said either this winter or next, after the ground was frozen.
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