Midmonring’s Paula Schroeder gets recollections from Cloquet Valley State Forest district ranger about J.C. "Buzz" Ryan, a longtime forester who died on February 14th, 1992.
Ryan was a writer from Duluth with first-hand recollections of the loggers, loaders, swampers, wood butchers, and bull cooks who ruled the woods in the heyday of the pioneer lumberjacks and Civilian Conservation Corps.