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Check out this article in Parry Sound Life magazine by our forester intern, Margaret Scott, about the history of logging in the Parry Sound area and how it has changed over time. A huge thanks to John Macfie, a local historian and retired employee of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, for telling us about the history of […]

While completing a harvest audit this week, Westwind staff stopped at an old J.R. Booth log pile. The pine logs would have been harvested in 1910 or even earlier. Pine logging was a very important part of the history of this area but also lead to the degraded forests that we are left with today. The […]