Download or read book Michigan s State Forests written by William B. Botti and published by Dave Dempsey Environmental Stu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that Michigan's nineteenth century white pine stands were the finest the world has ever seen. Dense, parklike stands, more than 150 feet tall, covered vast areas northward from the Bay City- Muskegon line. The sheer quantity of timber lured many adventurous entrepreneurs and enterprising farmers to Michigan. Lumber became a mainstay of Michigan's economy as logging interests and railroad entrepreneurs became adept at harvesting, transporting, and processing pine logs. Many considered the pine to be practically limitless. In October of 1871, the first indication of a troubled future occurred when Michigan settlers experienced fires unlike any they had ever seen. Following two months of serious drought, and fed by hundreds of small fires set by land-clearing operations, much of northern Lower Michigan erupted in flames; dry winds fanned the many small fires into one unbelievable conflagration that swept entirely across the Lower Peninsula, from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. Many towns were reduced to ashes, among them Holland, Glen Haven, Huron City, Sand Beach, White Rock, and Forestville. Navigation was interrupted on Lake Huron and as far downriver as Detroit because of the heavy smoke. More than 200 people lost their lives. Michigan's State Forests recounts how an abandoned, cutover, and often burned wilderness has been converted once again into highly productive and protected public lands. For more than 100 years, these lands have been preserved, managed and developed to form one of Michigan's great assets, not only for economic development but also as enhancements to our quality of life.

Download or read book Michigan State Forests written by Theron E. Daw and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Forests of Michigan Revised Ed written by Donald I. Dickmann and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect companion to Michigan Trees

Download or read book National Forests in Michigan written by United States. Forest Service. North Central Region and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social and Economic Assessment for Michigan s State Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Economic Appraisal of Michigan s State Forests written by Frank W. Kearns and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forest Owners and Timber Management in Michigan written by Con H. Schallau and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Economic Appraisal of the State Forests of Michigan written by Frank Wilber Kearns and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan Forest Scouts written by J. H. McGillivray and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan Forest Survey written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan s Forests written by North Central Forest Experiment Station (Grand Rapids, Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fish Wildlife Habitat on the National Forests in Michigan written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposed Old Growth and Biodiversity Stewardship Planning Process and Draft Criteria for Michigan s State Forests and Other State Owned Lands written by Michigan. Department of Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Michigan Forest Communities written by Donald Dickmann and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Upper Michigan National Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small Private Forest Landowners in Michigan s Upper Peninsula written by Dean N. Quinney and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the small forest landowner population including its distribution as to type of owner, size of holding, objectives of ownership, forestry practices, problems, and responses to existing and proposed forestry programs. The considerable proportion of absentee owners and the owners whose primary ownership objective is other than timber production suggest that for the Upper Peninsula the traditional approaches of public forestry programs may need to be revised.

Download or read book Imagining the Forest written by John R. Knott and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan---its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies---as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country. Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imagining the Forest shows the origin and development of both.