Forest History Center Real Horsepower Days - Logging

Joe visits Real Horsepower Days at the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. This is an environmental history and learning center and a living history logging camp.

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Joe first talks with our tour guide Ed Nelson about the history of the center itself which is a replica of an old logging camp. We visit the Company Office where Ed tells us about all the different jobs at the camp and the pay that goes with them. then it is on to the bunk house where he tells us about the daily schedule of the camp workers and the three big rules:
No gambling
No women
No alcohol
As all three of these activities cause fighting.

We then visit the "dingle" or cook supply storage room off the kitchen. Then on to the kitchen where the camp cook tells us everything we want to know about the meals, preparation, cookstoves and implements. The cook and her helpers need to provide 4000-5000 calories per day per man. We also get a glimpse of the women's bunk room right next to the kitchen.

We hear from about current programming at the center which includes:
Naturalist, Folk School, Wildlife, Kayaking and Biking Naturalist, all geared to connecting people to the forest and the forestry history of Northern Minnesota. He also talks about upcoming developments a the center.

He also describes all of the activities that bring people to recreate in the area: ice fishing, snow mobiling, snow shoeing, skiing, dog sledding and more.

Lastly we watch teams of draft horses and teamsters skidding logs, loading logging carts and building a giant log pyramid.

Forest History Center
2609 County Road 76
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
[email protected]
218-327-4482

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