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Logs at the Sawmill
Time Frame: 1999
Harvested logs in northeast Iowa at a sawmill. Raw timber is processed at the sawmill. It takes several steps to produce building materials from raw logs. 1999.
Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
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