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Join the The Forest History Association of Wisconsin for a Zoom webinar with Susan Apps-Bodilly, coauthor (with Jerry Apps) of the book Timber! A Northwoods Story of Lumberjacks, Logging, and the Land
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Long ago, huge trees filled the Northwoods. In the mid-1800s, logging camps and sawmills opened. Lumberjacks moved in. This was the beginning of the logging boom, when millions of trees were cut to help build towns and cities. What was it like to live and work in the woods? How did giant logs get from the forests to the sawmills? What happened after the forests were cut down?
The latest book for young readers from father-daughter duo Jerry Apps and Susan Apps-Bodilly explores the origin story of Wisconsin’s logging boom, the damage it caused to the land, and the extraordinary efforts to restore the cutover land and log sustainably. Timber! will inspire readers to explore, protect, and learn more about the trees and forests in their own communities.
Susan Apps-Bodilly is a retired elementary and middle-school educator. She is the author of One Room School and Seeds in Soil and co-author, with Jerry Apps, of Old Farm Country Cookbook, all published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Susan and her husband, Paul, have four children and three grandchildren. She enjoys gardening, kayaking, and spending time hiking in the woods at the family tree farm, Roshara, in Waushara County. Visit her at https://susanappsbodilly.com/
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