River crews in the logging country used a specialized vocabulary and tools to move timber through the waterways. Bateaux were large canoes used by river crews, a beat was a stretch of river worked by a crew, and dry roll meant moving logs stranded after flood waters had receded. Peavey men were loggers who worked river drives using peaveys to move logs, while sacking meant rolling logs stranded on sandbars or in sloughs. Jerkwater meant coffee, and rolling stock meant donuts. Their tools included the cant hook, a long-handled swivel hook used to roll logs; the stamp hammer, used to brand logs with a lumber company’s symbol to show ownership; the peavey, a cant hook with a sharp end; and the pike pole, a nine-foot-long pole with a metal spike on the end used to move logs in water. In 1847 Native Americans ceded land to the government, a government survey was completed in 1865, and the land was offered for sale in 1871. Logging dams were authorized in 1887, when the first Rest Lake Dam was constructed. In 1892 the Rest Lake Dam water level was raised to 9.5 feet and the steamboat Skidoo was built on Rest Lake to haul logs. The railroad reached nearby Boulder Junction in 1903 and service ended there in 1931. The state began buying cut-over land from timber companies in 1907, established its first tree nursery at Trout Lake in 1911, expanded state forest ownership to 92,000 acres in 1924, and named the Northern Highland State Forest in 1925. The Civilian Conservation Corps began planting 11 million trees per year in 1933, the first mechanical tree-planting machine was used on the Northern Highland in 1944, the Rest Lake Dam came up for re-licensing in 1997, a decision in 1998 held that no license was required, and in 2000 the Chippewa Flambeau Improvement Co. asked the town of Manitowish Waters to buy the dam.