Tuesday, June 9, 2015
A $4,500 Plum Creek Foundation grant will help the Society of American Foresters continue to preserve the proud historical legacy of the timber industry in Montana.
The award-winning SAF Forestry Interpretive Area, started in 1982, is located at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, where the grant will be used for an addition to a display shed, interpretive signs and repainting. The SAF area showcases the history of forestry, timber harvest and antique equipment from the past 120 years.
In 1993, Plum Creek donated a pole shed that was moved and repurposed by volunteers to be used to protect SAF forestry and logging exhibits. This will be the second time the shed has been enlarged.
The SAF hosts Forestry Day in late April at the museum, which attracts 600 to 800 people, and a Fourth of July picnic that is attended by thousands of people.
“The SAF has acquired a wide variety of forestry and logging-related equipment,” says Scott Kuehn, SAF Historical Chair. “Our high-wheel loader used to transport logs and a steam-powered sawmill are both still in working order. This building addition will protect our historical equipment that is now out in the weather and will help us make them available for the public to see” he added.
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