The Menominee tribe of Wisconsin has sustainably harvested its woods for nearly 170 years, providing a model for foresters worldwide. Amid climate change and other threats to the forest, the tribe continues to follow a traditional code: Let the healthy trees keep growing.
Mike Lohrengel looks up in awe at trees he has known for 30 years.
“This is one of the most beautiful places I know. This forest has it
all: the most species, the most diversity. Many trees I know
individually. Look at this one behind us. It’s got a split way up there.
I’ll never forget that tree till I die.”
...moreIt is a love affair, for sure. But Lohrengel is no tree-hugger, out to preserve a special, pristine place. He is a timber harvest administrator, overseeing logging in one of the most remarkable working forests in the United States — nearly a quarter-million acres of trees that occupy almost the entire Menominee Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin...
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