The Red River of Wisconsin is a 47.2-mile-long (76.0 km)[1] tributary of the Wolf River. It flows through Gresham and has a dam. Below Gresham, the Red River flows into the Wolf River in northern Shawano County.
*In 1885 many immigrants from Bohemia and Steyermark, Austria, began to settle in the community. Today there are French, Hollandish and people of German descent in the community.
*Village named after a wild genus of herbs growing in the forests nearby.
* In the Menominee language it is called Omāhkahkow-Menīkān which means "frog town". It lies within ancestral Menominee territory which was ceded to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars.
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Most Publicized Incident in Winter, Wisconsin~
One of the most exciting and most publicized incidents in logging history took place in the town of Winter on the banks of the Thornapple River. The trouble resulted because of a clause in a deed which reserved flowage rights tot he Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company.
An employee of this Company, John Dietz, purchased a tract of land from the Company through which flowed the Thornapple River, a stream used for log drives. Prior to settling on his newly acquired property, Mr. Dietz was employed as a watchman at Price Dam on the Brunet River. Shortly after moving to the Thornapple site he tried to collect wages that he claimed had not been paid to him while he was employed as a watchman.
Mr. Dietz refused to allow the Company to drive the logs through his property unless it paid a fee of ten cents per thousand foot for the logs that had passed over his waterway since he purchased the property. The Company refused to pay. Mr. Dietz armed himself with a rifle and appeared at the dam to enforce his claim.
Arguments between Dietz and the Company persisted for several years. The Company paid the claim of $1800 for wages but still Dietz would not compromise. The Company was forced to haul its logs to the Flambeau River which resulted in additional expense.
The Company entered a legal complaint and the sheriff and deputies were sent out from time to time to serve a summons on Mr. Dietz. No one succeeded in apprehending him.
On another occasion Dietz had an altercation with the school clerk which resulted in the wounding of the town marshal by a pistol shot fired by Dietz. The county officials became enraged over this unfortunate act. The sheriff organized a posse of the best riflemen in the town of Winter and set out to apprehend Dietz. A son and daughter were wounded in ambush and taken to Winter for medical treatment.
The District Attorney pleaded with Dietz to give up peacefully and settle his troubles in court, but Dietz refused.
A pitched battle occurred on October 7, 1910 in which Mr. Dietz was wounded. He surrendered to the sheriff, was tried by jury, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He served ten years in the state prison and then was pardoned. He retired to Milwaukee to live with his family and died in 1924.
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*Water Is Life*
The Flambeau River is a tributary of the Chippewa River in northern Wisconsin.
The name flambeau means "torch" in French. Many place names in Wisconsin have French origins due to the early French explorers, trappers and traders in the region in the colonial era. A common interpretation is that early explorers saw the local Ojibwe (Chippewa) people fishing at night by torchlight
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This log came from a 300 year old tree. This white pine was 130 feet in height, 4 feet 2 inches in diameter and the girth was 13 feet 2 inches.
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The White Pine is a fast growing (2-3 ft per year or more) evergreen that has needles of from 3-6 inches long and are arranged in bundles of five on the stem.
Pine trees can survive in the winter because of their pine needles. ... So this helps them to survive and live through the winter times. The pine trees bark also helps them to survive in the winter because coniferous trees like these pine trees have thick bark to protect against the freezing cold in winter.
Fungus fruiting structures on the dead and dying trees produce the fungal spores that are carried by the wind and pose a risk to pine trees anywhere in the state. The disease has been confirmed in 21 counties from the southern Wisconsin to Oconto County in the northeast.
Pine trees are one of the biggest contributors to air pollution. They give off gases that react with airborne chemicals — many of which are produced by human activity — creating tiny, invisible particles that muddy the air. The air that we breathe is chock-full of particles called aerosols. ...
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