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Michigan’s State Forests: A Century of Stewardship (Dave Dempsey Environmental Studies)

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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 turned into a mainstay of Michigan’s economy as logging interests and railroad entrepreneurs turned into adept at harvesting, transporting, and processing pine logs. Many regarded as 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 incredible conflagration that swept entirely around 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 once interrupted on Lake Huron and as far downriver as Detroit on account of the heavy smoke. More than 200 people lost their lives. 
    Michigan’s State Forests recounts how an abandoned, cutover, and incessantly burned wilderness has been converted once again into highly productive and safe public lands. For more than 100 years, these lands have been preserved, managed and developed to form one in every of Michigan’s great assets, not only for economic development but in addition as enhancements to our quality of life.


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