By Josh Day
On Friday September 13, 1996, the 7 of us were ready to go to Doug’s cabin to start cleaning it out. The state had decided that some of the cabins along the St. Croix river were going to have to come down because they wanted more state land to be preserved for wildlife.
Doug’s cabin was one of them. So after a couple of short meetings and Doug deciding who to take we left at 7:30 Friday morning. The group of people who came along were Doug Berg, Chris Wegler, Tony Kohman, Phil Lynott, Sothik Prak, Austin Manship, and I was also there. Now we were on our way to the first stop in Rush City were we all ate breakfast in the Grant house. This was a restaurant and a hotel with good food and slow service. After an hour break we headed to the Hwy. 70 St. Croix National Park headquarters to pick up a trailer to use to haul all of the junk to our good friend Sam Shallito. After stopping to get the trailer we went to the cabin and Doug went over what stuff to take out that we don’t need for the Mark Warren trip. We took about 4 or 5 loads to Sam. Sam has a junk yard for people to come and bring some selected items or some people go there to get parts for a certain thing and is a lot cheaper. After finishing up we closed up the cabin and dropped off the trailer at the park headquarters and were on our way home.
We waited till the Mark Warren trip had gone by and went back to clear out the cabin. On the next trip Justin Streeter, Tony Kohman, Mike Ennis, Phil Lynott, Josh Stinson, Doug Berg, and I was there also. We made the same trip there and removed all of the stuff out that Doug didn’t want and took it to Sam. We came back and loaded up the wood burning stove and a kitchen stove and some chairs and a few odds and ends. Doug made us lunch and that was the end of cleaning the cabin out for us. Doug was going to go up that weekend to clean it out and hand the keys to the park rangers. Now in a few years they will come in with big equipment and tear down the cabins that were in the designated area for removal.
The End!