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Hartwick Pines State Park is a public recreation area covering 9,762 acres (3,951 ha) in Crawford County near Grayling and Interstate 75 on the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The state park contains an old-growth forest of white pines and red pines, known as the Hartwick Pines.
Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine[2] is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada, west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian ...
Estivant Pines. Estivant Pines Nature Sanctuary is a 508-acre (2.06 km 2) nature sanctuary in Keweenaw County, Michigan. It is maintained and preserved by the Michigan Nature Association. One of the larger white pine trees in the Sanctuary. The area was originally part of a 2,400-acre tract of land owned by Edward Estivant of Paris, who sold it ...
Copper mining in the Upper Peninsula boomed, and from 1845 until 1887 (when it was exceeded by Butte, Montana) the Michigan Copper Country was the nation's leading producer of copper. In most years from 1850 through 1881, Michigan produced more than three-quarters of the nation's copper, and in 1869 produced more than 95% of the country's copper.
Map showing National Forests in Michigan. The Manistee National Forest is a national forest located in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It has a total area of 540,187 acres (2,190 km 2). It was established in 1938, and combined with the Huron National Forest in 1945 for administrative purposes, creating the Huron-Manistee National Forests.
49971. Area code. 906. GNIS feature ID. 1622143 [1] White Pine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The CDP had a population of 474 at the 2010 census. [3] White Pine is located within Carp Lake Township. Much of White Pine was developed in the 1950s a housing ...
The best scenic drives in metro Detroit: Here's where you'll find them Week of Oct. 14: Peak fall colors in most of Michigan's Up North. Much of the northern part of the state should be in peak ...
The Northwoods are the boreal forest of North America, covering about half of Canada and parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. [1] For the part within the borders of the Midwestern United States, see North Woods. The Boreal forest and its alpine cousins are host to a wide variety of deer, ranging ...