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Making the Grade

by Stephen Long | June 29th 2011 |

It’s a Friday afternoon in late September. Logger Mikael Batten stands at the edge of a skid trail laying out his last hitch of the week, making sure there’s a full load of firewood on the landing for his trucker.

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