Menominee sustained 140 years of harvest yet holds more timber than in 1854.

Evidence

According to their booklet on sustainable forest development: … To many, our forest may seem pristine and untouched. In reality, it is one of the most intensely managed tracts of forest in the lake states. During the past 140 years, we have harvested more than two and one-half billion board-feet of lumber from our land. That is the equivalent of cutting all the standing timber on the reservation almost twice over. Yet, the saw timber volume now standing is greater than that which was here in 1854 when the Wolf River Treaty defined the reservation. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 668

Categorization

• XREF: A direct counterexample to the clearcut-as-progress logic at White Earth and Potlatch expansion — Menominee sustainable forestry as an intact alternative. — connects to: Resistance through litigation and land recovery is restoring White Earth forests and culture — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 67; Market purchase by a land trust is restoring endangered maple sugarbush at White Earth. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 655
• ADDENDUM: Strengthens the trees-as-infrastructure essay’s argument about long-horizon stewardship: sustained-yield cutting that leaves more standing timber than treaty baseline.
• SEED: Menominee forestry is a ready essay subject on managed abundance versus extractive diminishment — could spin off the reciprocal relationship between use and growth.