source: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/04/logging-the-northern-woods
American myth loves the lumberjack. Paul Bunyan. His blue ox, Babe. A big axe swinging and tall forests without end.
Well, the lumberjacks are still out there. But the world has changed around them. They’re not forty feet tall anymore. It’s a chain saw, not an axe. Kevlar over the blue jeans. And forests that are certainly not without end.
They’re not even the same forests, as climate change moves in. And still, Americans want the wood.
Jack McEnany has gone deep in one corner of the American woods to bring out the story of today’s loggers. He calls them “brush cats.”
Click to listen to the complete Northern Woods Radio Show
American myth loves the lumberjack. Paul Bunyan. His blue ox, Babe. A big axe swinging and tall forests without end.
Well, the lumberjacks are still out there. But the world has changed around them. They’re not forty feet tall anymore. It’s a chain saw, not an axe. Kevlar over the blue jeans. And forests that are certainly not without end.
They’re not even the same forests, as climate change moves in. And still, Americans want the wood.
Jack McEnany has gone deep in one corner of the American woods to bring out the story of today’s loggers. He calls them “brush cats.”
Click to listen to the complete Northern Woods Radio Show