Event Calendar

Ignited by a single match on April 30, 1977, the Five Mile Tower Fire raged out of control for seventeen hours. It would be one of the largest wildland fires…

Sometime around 1912, a group of men engaged in a log drive posed for some photographs. One of the resulting pictures has been identified ever since as the "last log…

 In 1992, the late Jacques Vallier, a retired high school biology teacher, longtime collector of logging memorabilia, and member of the Forest History Association of Wisconsin donated his collection of…

The history of Wisconsin logging is not only told in historic photos, documents and oral histories, but also in archaeology, the study of the past through the artifacts and sites…

The ancient skill of working wrought iron by hand was essential to the development and survival of the Europeans who transformed the American landscape from first explorations through the closing…

In 2021, a 1,200 year old canoe was discovered in Madison’s Lake Mendota. Selected as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the world for 2021, its recovery made…

Along with much of the State of Wisconsin at the turn of the 19th Century, Southwestern Marathon and Northeastern Clark Counties relied on the lumber industry to support the local…

In the last half of the 1800s entrepreneurs and businessmen constructed dozens of privately-funded “bridge piers” along the western shores of Lake Michigan. At these piers, Wisconsin’s forests were exchanged…

This is the story of George Banzhaf, a young forester in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as told in the book “Adventures of a Young Entrepreneur: George…