National Forests in Michigan

NATIONAL FORESTS IN MICHIGAN UNITED STATES <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">DEPARTMENT OF </li><li style="flex:1">AGRICULTURE </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">FOREST </li><li style="flex:1">SERVICE </li></ul>NORTH CENTRAL REGION •MILWAUKEE, WIS. —THE ON Great COVER. 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Thirteen </li><li style="flex:1">another </li><li style="flex:1">Nicolet, </li><li style="flex:1">later, </li></ul>years protege Michigan longed-for Jean <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">French </li><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">unknown </li><li style="flex:1">Canada, entered the </li></ul>the Lake governor of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the Straits </li><li style="flex:1">Mackinac. </li></ul>he <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">found the </li><li style="flex:1">never </li></ul>Though through to <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Orient, </li><li style="flex:1">did </li></ul>the fur trade with the Indians route the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Nicolet </li><li style="flex:1">initiate </li><li style="flex:1">French </li></ul>in this territory. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">and </li></ul>to Heroic followers Nicolet were the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Brule </li><li style="flex:1">fathers </li><li style="flex:1">and </li><li style="flex:1">Jogues </li></ul>Jesuit <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">1641 at Sault </li><li style="flex:1">who </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">Ste. </li></ul>Marie, Ojibwas in <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Raymbault, </li><li style="flex:1">preached </li></ul>was where the first settlement made 27 Michigan <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">permanent </li><li style="flex:1">later </li></ul>years and Dablon. by Marquette <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Frenchmen all, </li><li style="flex:1">and missionaries </li><li style="flex:1">traced the rivers and </li></ul>and explorers, trappers, —lakes of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">this </li><li style="flex:1">Radisson and Groseillers, </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Marquette </li><li style="flex:1">territory </li></ul>Joliet, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">and La </li><li style="flex:1">Salle, but it was not to France that the rich </li></ul>Hennepin Michigan Treaty of prize By fell when the ambitions of two clashed. empires <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">great </li></ul>to in of Paris 1763 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">dominion. </li><li style="flex:1">English </li></ul>the treaty closing Michigan passed Twenty the War withdraw later it ceded to the United States was years by <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">the Revolution, but not until 1796 did the British </li></ul>garrison from Detroit. The and in 1805 the Northwest was of Indiana was Territory of Indiana and growing, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">into the </li><li style="flex:1">two Territories </li></ul>separated <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Michigan </li><li style="flex:1">Lower </li></ul>(the In to the Union as <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">a</li><li style="flex:1">1837 </li></ul>was admitted Michigan for land lost to which was to State and, the little known Peninsula). in received Ohio, prove compensation Peninsula grudgingly one of the richest ore basins in the Upper country. White sails to <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bark </li><li style="flex:1">on </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">canoes </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the Great Lakes and in turn </li><li style="flex:1">replaced </li></ul>steamboats; the war <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">and </li><li style="flex:1">Ottawas, </li></ul>gave <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">way </li><li style="flex:1">whoops </li><li style="flex:1">Chippewas, </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Hurons faded </li><li style="flex:1">to historical </li></ul>echoes; and in <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">Indian </li></ul>the natural resources. great Michigan of conquest —tribes was followed a<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">new </li><li style="flex:1">by </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">struggle </li><li style="flex:1">conquest </li></ul>[1] <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">NATIONAL </li><li style="flex:1">IN MICHIGAN </li></ul>FORESTS <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">IN THE BEGINNING NEARLY ALL MICHIGAN WAS CLOTHED WITH </li><li style="flex:1">MAGNIFICENT </li></ul>A<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">OF WHICH THIS IS </li><li style="flex:1">BEAUTIFUL </li></ul>REMNANT. FORESTS, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">was more </li><li style="flex:1">than the </li><li style="flex:1">in </li></ul>the None of these the important forests, north, pines <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">hardwoods </li></ul>the south. and the era is colorful one of the most <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">periods </li></ul>The State. the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">logging </li></ul>Magnificent of the lumberjacks. the history stands of white and red The fell <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">before the </li><li style="flex:1">axes </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">pine </li><li style="flex:1">hungry </li></ul>had <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">lumbering industry </li><li style="flex:1">exceptional </li></ul>advantages in because the timber was massed and was located vast on in stands, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">sizable </li><li style="flex:1">streams, </li></ul>Michigan making large- scale down in pine <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">operations </li><li style="flex:1">mainly </li></ul>The possible, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">to mills. </li><li style="flex:1">first </li></ul>great surge the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">could be floated </li><li style="flex:1">which </li></ul>logs with the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">and </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">came </li></ul>exhaustion of eastern forests and the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">lumbering </li><li style="flex:1">development </li></ul>of of railroads. The <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">settlement </li><li style="flex:1">the </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Chicago </li><li style="flex:1">Prairie </li></ul>pine lumbering reached of growth In a stimulus from the West. 1890 furnished when States feet lumber and <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">its </li><li style="flex:1">4,245,717,000 </li></ul>held of Michigan produced <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in lumber </li><li style="flex:1">place </li></ul>peak, all the States. above the latitude of center. first Out <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">production among </li><li style="flex:1">undisputed </li></ul>the lumber the of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">cities </li><li style="flex:1">most </li><li style="flex:1">the </li></ul>Michigan pine-lumbering great industry grew the first Saginaw Valley, of this years <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">reached their </li><li style="flex:1">in </li></ul>the The Lake forests country greatest glory of the the turn white-pine and for 20 States, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">preceding </li><li style="flex:1">century </li></ul>Chicago Middle <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">cried for the durable, </li><li style="flex:1">and </li></ul>easily <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">worked white </li><li style="flex:1">and the </li><li style="flex:1">West </li><li style="flex:1">light, </li></ul>echoed with the bite axes and the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">woods </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">Michigan </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Michigan. </li><li style="flex:1">pine </li></ul>[2] NATIONAL FORESTS IN MICHIGAN of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">swish </li><li style="flex:1">saws, </li><li style="flex:1">the </li></ul>of "Timberrrr <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">.</li><li style="flex:1">.</li></ul>." as the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">interrupted by </li><li style="flex:1">cry </li></ul>great and a<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">trees creaked </li><li style="flex:1">and </li></ul>little, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">crashed. </li><li style="flex:1">listed, </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">moved 40 </li><li style="flex:1">40 into </li><li style="flex:1">by </li></ul>the Manistee, Au Lumberjacks the forest of Michigan, Saginaw were manufactured primeval <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">the banks </li></ul>stripped. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Sable, </li><li style="flex:1">and </li></ul>Muskegon, left the woods for the sawmills Log to be upon log lumber and into <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">south. </li><li style="flex:1">were </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">even floated </li><li style="flex:1">timbers </li></ul>rafts to were built Huron National Long shipped in mills New York, and is half the it <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">said that </li><li style="flex:1">the houses in Buffalo </li></ul>from lumber cut in there was of the Forest. vicinity present <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">on </li><li style="flex:1">in </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">the </li></ul>Peninsula Finally and once <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">"daylight </li><li style="flex:1">swamps" </li></ul>Upper Even all over the once wooded areas of the State. be an abundant those who heavily <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">believed there would </li><li style="flex:1">of </li></ul>always Michigan supply was set for pines were disillusioned. And so the forest tableau wherein Michigan another scene in the of the resources is the stage <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">rebuilding </li><li style="flex:1">dominant </li></ul>theme. THE REBUILDING FORESTS are Men she is for better use of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">the cut-over lands </li></ul>Michigan; where areas; are planning achance nature with and aid is reclaiming <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">given </li><li style="flex:1">man's </li></ul>devastated from fire lands unsuited <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">through </li><li style="flex:1">to </li><li style="flex:1">planting </li><li style="flex:1">protection </li><li style="flex:1">farming </li></ul>RECKLESS AND FOREST <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">LOGGING </li><li style="flex:1">MOSTLY MAN </li><li style="flex:1">IN </li><li style="flex:1">RESULTED VAST DEVASTATED </li><li style="flex:1">FIRES, </li></ul>CAUSED, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">LIKE </li><li style="flex:1">AREAS </li></ul>THIS. [3] <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">IN MICHIGAN </li><li style="flex:1">NATIONAL FORESTS </li></ul>The new forests are timber forests. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">turned into </li><li style="flex:1">producing </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">being </li><li style="flex:1">productive </li></ul>to further deterioration of needs and are human prevent They give to meet helping erosion. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">effective </li><li style="flex:1">in </li></ul>stream aid soil the basic resource through afor <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">wildlife; </li><li style="flex:1">habitat </li><li style="flex:1">flow and water </li><li style="flex:1">regulation; they provide </li><li style="flex:1">they </li><li style="flex:1">supply </li></ul>and other recreation. Most better <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">hunting, </li><li style="flex:1">fishing, </li><li style="flex:1">important, </li><li style="flex:1">provide </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">to </li><li style="flex:1">to </li></ul>employment <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">are and will continue </li><li style="flex:1">contribute </li></ul>these forests perhaps, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">communities. </li><li style="flex:1">stabilization </li></ul>forest and In this and National National Forest was Michigan of forest restoration, State forests have proclaimed. Manistee in as program Back in 1909 the created. been in the the Huron and State, national forests Now there are five <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">and Hiawatha </li><li style="flex:1">Peninsula; and the </li></ul>Lower Upper public Marquette the the are (administered the in the Peninsula. All Upper <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">and </li><li style="flex:1">Ottawa </li></ul>these Michigan), so as to be of the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">forests and as such are </li><li style="flex:1">service </li></ul>managed highest to the people. Timber Production. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of the forest is that it can be renewed and </li><li style="flex:1">advantage </li></ul>need in One never some great Protection from fire allows natural be exhausted. reproduction <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of the burned-over land the desirable </li><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">but on much </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">areas, </li><li style="flex:1">types </li></ul>and a new forest must established have trees seedlings. killed <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">be </li><li style="flex:1">been </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">by </li><li style="flex:1">planting </li></ul>Nursery —<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Stock is </li><li style="flex:1">Forest Service nurseries </li><li style="flex:1">the Beal </li><li style="flex:1">provided by </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">BY </li><li style="flex:1">AIDED </li><li style="flex:1">FROM </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">IS </li><li style="flex:1">ON MUCH </li></ul>NATURE, PROTECTION FIRE, RESTORING FORESTS NATIONAL <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">OF THIS </li><li style="flex:1">CUT- </li></ul>OVER LAND. FOREST.) (OTTAWA [4] NATIONAL FORESTS IN MICHIGAN F-243170 SUCCESSFULLY UPON THOUSANDS RESTORE OF SEVERELY BURNED AND ERODED ACRES FORESTS CANNOT THEMSELVES. FOREST SERVICE <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">OF SEEDLING TREES TO REPLANT </li><li style="flex:1">ARE </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">RAISED </li><li style="flex:1">MILLIONS </li><li style="flex:1">SUCH AREAS </li></ul>FOREST.) IN NURSERIES. NURSERY, HURON NATIONAL the (BEAL at East and the 97,000,000 needed <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">at </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Manistique, </li><li style="flex:1">Tawas, </li></ul>at <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Watersmeet, </li><li style="flex:1">Wyman </li><li style="flex:1">Tourney </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">provide </li><li style="flex:1">Chittenden at Wellston. These </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">nurseries </li><li style="flex:1">an </li></ul>average of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">for </li><li style="flex:1">each </li></ul>been the national forests of Michigan. Much seedlings has year done in recent <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">with the </li><li style="flex:1">of </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">help </li><li style="flex:1">planting </li></ul>the Civilian is undertaken years Conservation Corps. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Reforestation of </li><li style="flex:1">the thousands of </li><li style="flex:1">in </li><li style="flex:1">of </li></ul>of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">acres </li><li style="flex:1">need </li></ul>restocking each <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">careful </li><li style="flex:1">after </li></ul>The of tree <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">only </li><li style="flex:1">planning. </li><li style="flex:1">requirements </li></ul>

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