MPR’s Leif Enger reports on how the timber industry in Becker County is dealing with the aftermath of an immense blowdown from windstorms that spanned from July 9th to 14th. The tree loss and change to forest landscape was massive.
Severe windstorms, with straight-line winds in excess of 100 miles per-hour ripped through northern Minnesota in July 1995, bending, breaking or uprooting more than seven million trees, mostly in an eight-mile-wide and 50-mile-long swath from Detroit Lakes to Bemidji.