Twenty years before her great-grandfather opened the boat tours, the waterway was a highway for loggers, but the logjam of 1886 was a doozy.
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John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
20 Aug. 2026
The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less.
Her mother was a homemaker, and her father was a lumberman and sawmill owner with one of the largest lumber operations in the area.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 June 2026
The drive honors the late lumberman and passionate outdoorsman Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
In 1896, a local lumberjack near a small town in northeastern Wisconsin told of a bizarre green monster roaming the nearby woods.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Aug. 2026
The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less.
Think smiling jack-o'-lanterns, black cats, friendly ghosts, retro blow molds and decorations inspired by Halloweens of decades past.
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Casey DelBasso,
ABC News,
17 Aug. 2026
One option couldn’t be any cuter with its black cats and purple bows, while another features light pink checks with cheerful jack-o-lanterns and pink bows.
—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Aug. 2026
Utah's state forester, Jamie Barnes, told reporters that fires across the state this season had been moving in ways that had stretched Utah's firefighting capacity to its limits, with new fires beginning closer to populated areas than in previous years.
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Willem Marx,
NPR,
28 June 2026
With the fires spread out across the state, emergency response teams could use more personnel, said state forester Jamie Barnes.
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