Square Timber Wild Area

This is a 120-year old second growth forest with stands of Dry Oak – Heath Forest, Red Oak – Mixed Hardwood Forest, Northern Hardwood Forest, Aspen/Grey (Paper) Birch Forest, Hemlock (White Pine) Forest, and Red Maple Forests. Less than 200-acres of the Wild Area received silvicultural treatments in 1980’s and early 2000’s before its official designation as a Wild Area.

Square Timber is named because the first timber was hewn into square timbers. Hewing logs was a learned and sought-after trade. The area is famous for a log loading record on January 30, 1905 when 51 cars (average is 22 cars loaded per day) were loaded with 711 logs totaling 170,000 board feet in six-hours, fifty-nine minutes. Just six months later, the mill was dissembled and moved to a new location

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