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English: Map of Michigan State Forests and Management Units - United States. Date: 25 August 2011: ... Lake Superior State Forest; List of Michigan state forests;
Michigan State Forests Map. The following is a list of state forests in the U.S. state of Michigan. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources manages the largest state forest system in the nation (2.8 million acres (16,000 km 2)), administered by the Forest Resources Division. In literature describing recreational uses of state forest lands ...
Brevort is located within Moran Township in the state's Upper Peninsula about 15 miles (24.1 km) northwest of the Mackinac Bridge. [9] The Hiawatha National Forest is just to the east of the center of the community. [10] Portions of the surrounding area are also included in the Sault Ste. Marie section of the Lake Superior State Forest. The ...
The state of Michigan acquired these land parcels after they had been stripped of their old growth trees in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; today, the state manages the land for reforestation. In many cases, the second-growth trees that have sprouted throughout Copper Country land are pulpwood trees such as aspen and birch. [1]
U.S. Forest Service The McCormick Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It covers an area of about 17,000 acres (69 km 2 ) and is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Baraga - Marquette county line. [ 1 ]
Hidden forest estimated to be 13,500 years old discovered along Lake Michigan’s shore in Manitowoc County ... The Badger State is well known for its glacial landforms, created when glaciers ...
The Lake Superior forest region was one of the last areas in Michigan to be logged for old-growth Red Pine and White Pine. Logging continued into the 1910s. Much of the sandy, cut-over land was seen as worthless and was allowed to revert to the state of Michigan in lieu of unpaid property taxes. The state reorganized these parcels of property ...
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).