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Article: Chainsaw massacre? Not in Wisconsin
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1996
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Just across the Great Smokey Falls, on the Wolf River in
northern Wisconsin, lie 250,000 acres of lush and exceptionally
beautiful forest consisting of oak, beech, maple, white pine,
hemlock and 20 other species. Although this, the Menominee Indian
reservation, may sound exotic, anyone who has gone to the Homebase
DIY store in Britain may have bought wood from the banks of the
Wolf River (although UK distribution is now handled by Milland Fine
Timber in Liphook, Hampshire).
For this forest is a garden rather than a wilderness. The
Menominees market timber from their forest around the world. And
they do it sustainably. Foresters come from as far as Brazil,
Sweden and Malaysia to see the ...