The lumbering boom in Michigan in the 1800s made some people very rich.
It also left a lot of waste behind.
Terry Heatlie and I took a walk in the mud on the south side of Muskegon Lake.
“We don’t have to go very far to see slabwood – I see some sticking out there. Slabwood is what was left over when they squared off the logs to make planks. So, this is the outside of the log, and back in the 1800s, apparently they had no use for that, so they just threw it in the water.”