Neil Haney says it’s taken some adjusting to get used to the woods in Boyne Falls after the ice storm. There’s less shade. There are new views with the forest thinned out. And it’s a lot noisier than before.
“At camp, you didn't hear road noise. You'd hear semis occasionally, but you never heard pickup trucks. You never heard small vehicles driving by,” he said. “Now you hear everything.”
Haney is the executive director of Lake Louise Christian Community, which includes a summer camp and vacation cottages, and suffered damage to about 1,700 acres of its woods from the ice storm.
For years, the organization has factored logging money into its budget to lower the cost of camp. To avoid losing that money, Haney says the camp’s forester hired logging crews to salvage as much storm-damaged timber as possible as soon as possible.
