Dan McDonough, a nine-time world champion log roller and the owner of Jack Pine Lumberjack Shows in Mackinaw City, carries on the traditions of Michigan’s mighty loggers. This article first appeared ...

Michigan's lumber boom was an era defined by the huge, the heroic, and the heartbreaking. The trees were massive, the work was dangerous and often deadly, the scale of it all -- from the wealth ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - With inspiration from Saginaw’s rich logging history and a background in home brewing, Chris Andrews, his sister and their nephew set out to open the only microbrewery in Saginaw ...

OTSEGO COUNTY — Although the logging industry flourished in Northern Michigan in the late 1800s, by 1917 it was all but over leaving behind logging villages that started dying as quickly as they had ...

Excerpted from “Reminiscences of Michigan’s Logging Days” by Willis C. Ward, son of legendary Northern Michigan lumberman David Ward, who owned and logged vast tracts of forest west of Frederic. My ...