The Home Front

摘要

Challenges abound for Newfoundland contractors these days, but if it means the kids can stay close to home, if s worth it for loggers like Grand Falls' Francis Wlilson. Newfoundland's nickname may be "The Rock," but driving out to Fiancis Wilson's cutblock near Grand Falls, you realize it may just as well have been dubbed "The Bog." Not as romantic perhaps, but that's the reality facing this central Newfoundland logger every day. Once you get over the rock and around the bog to one of the region's scattered stands, there's not much of a prize waiting for you The local wood is small and short, aveiaging just 0.07 m~3 per tree, and is often surrounded by brush and unmet chantables.