AM 1240 WJON » logging http://wjon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:38:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Verso Plant Closure Compounds Troubles for Loggers http://wjon.com/verso-plant-closure-compounds-troubles-for-loggers/ http://wjon.com/verso-plant-closure-compounds-troubles-for-loggers/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:22:20 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=129140 The permanent closures this month of the Verso paper mill in Sartell and the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth are compounding the troubles of Minnesota's logging industry. The state has lost about a third of its loggers in the past few years, leaving about 1,500 still operating.

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