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The automation of the forestry industry has also changed the way of life for many along the Great Northern Peninsula. At one time, thousands of men worked in the lumber camps during the winter. A lot of hours were spent cutting pulpwood to feed the papermill. Today, all of the forest resources are mechanically harvested and large numbers of men with bandsaws and later chainsaws are a thing of the past. The forestry industry of today has not only changed a way of life, but has also changed the very landscape which once supported it.

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A wood boom at the mouth of St. Genevieve River. High water on the river during Spring.
1933
St. Genevive