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Lumbering in the North Woods
Goal: Students will recognize the lumber industry as a local industry that filled a void left by the decline of wheat farming and brought economic prosperity to the area.
Objectives:
1) Students will analyze two historic photographs.
2) Students will be able to give an explanation for why logging was originally conducted only in the winter time.
3) Students will predict uses for the lumber.
4) Students will conduct research about life as a lumberjack.
5) Students will imagine and describe a day in the life of a lumberjack in their journals.
Study the photographs of the lumber camp and of logs on the
For each picture, fill out the chart below:
Lumber camp photo
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Logs on the
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1) Were these photographs taken at the same time? Give a reason for your answer.
2) Before the arrival of railroads in the areas of lumber camps, logging was done only in the winter. Why do you think that was?
3) Can you guess why the cut logs are in the
4) For what do you think these logs will be used?
5) Imagine that you are one of the lumberjacks pictured. Use books in your library and information on-line to find on-line to find out what your typical day might have been like. Where would you sleep? Where and what would you eat? What were the tools of your trade? How many hours a day would you have worked? Etc. Write a letter to a loved one at home telling him or her about your day.
Photograph of the Knoke Lumber Company Camp, early 1900s
Photograph of logs floating in the Embarras River, early 1900s
