Children of the slash pile • Minnesota Reformer

Children of the slash pile • Minnesota Reformer

A slash pile along State Highway 169 between Hibbing and Grand Rapids. Photo illustration by Aaron Brown.Last March, they logged under the old railroad trestle where Itasca County’s Scenic Highway 7 meets State Highway 169. Anyone driving between Hibbing and Grand Rapids this summer saw the results. This scene on the western Mesabi Range recalls historical photographs. Dried ruts criss-cross the mud. Bark everywhere. Limbs strewn. Bent and scrub…