Excerpt from Framing the Cutover: The Settlement of Northern Wisconsin Ed L. Peet, in his Grantsburg J our nal of Burnett County had objected to reforestation as early as 1903. Ten years later two Rhinelander papers, the News and the New North, led the attack on Griffith and his ideas. Newspapers of other northern counties joined in and the debate pro and con forestry and agriculture became quite general. In February 1912 the New North prefaced an anti-forestry letter with: It is gratifying to know that the people of Rhinelander are even at this late day awakening to the need of developing agricultural resources of Oneida County. The letter-writer claimed the soil was rich and excel lent for farming. He pointed out that state-owned forest reserves reduced local tax income. Counties should elect representatives to the legisla ture who would insist on selling the land to settlers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.