On Screen


Jerry Apps, PhD - Writer/Historian and the author of "When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin".


Catherine Koele - Wisconsin DNR, Wildfire Prevention Specialist.


Jed Meunier, PhD - Wisconsin DNR, Ecologist and Research Scientist, 1871 Peshtigo Fire Expert.


Laura Marotz - Peshtigo Fire Museum Director & Historian

Ron Strojny - Peshtigo Fire Historian


More to come!

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