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Instead, we chose to grow our timber. We learned from the Menominee and the Germans that there are better ways to manage a forest than the Industrial forestry I was taught at the University. We learned to encourage nature and harvest just the natural output of the forest. Our forest inventory has grown from 350,000 board feet in 1976 to over 1,000,000 bf of high quality timber today. We have harvested about 450,000 board feet of wood in the improvement process, supporting a wonderful business and supplying many building projects. The stumpage value has grown from $14,000 in 1976 - to $500,000 today.
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