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Paper Cuts: Saving the Mill and the Town

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Faced with the devastating twin threats of digital and China, can a critical Wisconsin industry...

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Butch Johnson, CEO of Flambeau River Paper, stands among the rows of cut logs ready to made into paper at the Flambeau River Paper mill in Park Falls, Wisconsin. Image by Mike De Sisti. USA, 2012.

After it shut down in 2006, logger Butch Johnson bought the paper mill in Park Falls and reopened it as Flambeau River Papers, saving the jobs of about 300 employees. Video by Mike De Sisti

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