This methods of transport were prevalent up until the s, when railroads began to penetrate far into the woods. In the s, wherever there was timber there was also sawmilling.
The first commercial sawmill in Minnesota opened in at Marine on St. Marine was quickly surpassed by Stillwater, which in turn was overtaken by Minneapolis and Winona. Steam power was introduced into sawmilling in the s, replacing the need for water power and allowing sawmills to move to other river towns.
By , the growth of commercial railroads, steam engine improvements, and the invention of the band saw, led to larger sawmills and saw-milling towns in Brainerd, Little Falls, Crookston, Cloquet, Duluth, and International Falls. By , when lumber production reached an all-time high in Minnesota, lumberjacks were felling as much as 2 billion board-feet annually — enough to circle the earth with an inch-thick, foot-wide boardwalk.
Harvesting dropped rapidly after The large-scale sawmilling industry virtually vanished by Road building accelerated in the s, spurred both by tourism and by the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Roads ended the camp system, allowing loggers to get into remote areas, haul their loads out on trucks, and still get home in time for supper.
At the same time, pine harvests grew smaller, the quality of Minnesota lumber was going down, and lumber prices were going up. National demand for wood remained high, and Minnesota lumbermen kept cutting. As supply dwindled, sawmills on the St. Croix closed and those at St. Anthony Falls were replaced by flour mills. With the industry in decline, lumber companies looked to the Pacific Northwest and the South for timber.
In , the Rainy Lake Lumber Company in Virginia, Minnesota, closed its doors and signaled the end of pine logging in the state. Lumber companies that remained in Minnesota shifted production from saw logs to pulp, paper, matchsticks, and manufactured building materials.
The last log drive in Minnesota occurred on the Little Fork River in In the mids, machines like feller-bunchers, skidders, and crane loaders were put to work harvesting the new forests of young aspen, spruce, and birch. More importantly, it severely undermines legally harvested and traded forest products.
When trees are harvested illegally, they are offered at a significantly discounted value. Poverty, weak governance, and corruption are the root causes of illegal logging. Thankfully, illegal logging is not an issue in North America. As an American, you can be proud of that. Our well-developed public policies, multifaceted governance structure with laws, regulations, enforcement, monitoring, public reporting, and lots of lawyers, protect our forests from illegal logging.
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