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Called Old Preemption. On heights 

 sloping to the lake. Includes ravines. 

 Variously owned. 



Frankfort.— r. H. Hubbell. 



Grayling Pine. 76 acres, Young stand 

 of white pine, with some Norway pine, 

 hemlock, and hardwood. The last white 

 pine in Michigan. 



Grayling.— P. S. Lovejoy. 



Otsego County Hardwood. Several sec- 

 tions of virgin hardwood remain in this 

 county, the last hardwood forests of any 

 adequate area remaining in the southern 

 peninsula. At least 640 acres should be 

 permanently preserved. 



Gaylord, 6 mi. W. (a).— L. R. Dice. 



Pictured Rocks. (B3.) 10 to 100 sq. 

 mi. along Lake Superior shore in Alger 

 County. Sand dunes, pictured rocks, 

 hardwood and pine forests, cedar 

 swamps, tamarack bogs, small rapid 

 streams, rock exposures. Lake Superior 

 shores. Privately owned. 20 mi. north 

 of Seney (wagon), camp. — L. R. Dice. 



Porcupine Mountains. (B3.) 10 to 

 20 sq. mi. in Ontonagon County. High- 

 est-elevation in Michigan. Mountains, 

 rock exposures, hardwood forest, hem- 

 lock, pine, bogs, beaver meadows, shrub 

 thickets, small streams and lakes. Lake 

 Superior shore. Privately owned. 24 

 mi. west of Ontonagon (wagon), camp. 

 ■ — L. R. Dice. 



Carpenter Woods. (C4.) About 500 

 acres in Hope Township, central Barry 

 County. Rolling topography, original 

 hardwood forest; soil of clay and gravel, 

 small stream and swamps. Privately 

 owned. One mi. south Cloverdale (a). 

 — Doreen Potter. 



Waterloo Big Marsh. (C4.) About 

 1200 acres in Waterloo Township, Jack- 

 son County, at the headwaters of the 

 Grand River. About one-third in cat- 

 tails, and a considerable portion in 

 tamarack bog. Much rose shrub and 

 numerous other marsh and swamp 

 habitats; a small creek; one small lake. 

 Sandhill crane breeds; snowshoe hare 

 lingered here until the early nineties. 

 The Grand River drain now under con- 

 struction will drain most of the area. 

 Privately owned. One mi. northwest 

 Waterloo (w).- — Walter Koelz. 



Cisco Lake Region. (B2.) Southern 

 Gogebic County. Mostly mixed hard- 

 wood deciduous forest in nearly natural 

 conditions, except that the white pine 

 has been removed. Gently rolling to- 

 pography. Many lakes. Deer abun- 

 dant. Privately owned. 6 mi. east 



(c), Bent's Resort (State Line, Wise). 

 — L. R. Dice. 



Little Girl's Point. (A3.) 10 to 20 

 sq. mi., southeast of Little Girl's Point 

 on Lake Superior, Gogebic County. A 

 high ridge with splendid development 

 of dry sugar maple-linden-yellow birch 

 forest. Numerous black spruce bogs, 

 arbor vitae swamps, hemlock slopes, and 

 stages following burns. A few small 

 patches of white pine. Owned by lum- 

 ber companies. 14 mi. north, (a) 

 Ironwood. — L. R. Dice. 



North End Gogebic Lake. (B2.) 10 to 

 20 sq. mi. west side of Gogebic Lake 

 near north end. Mostly low, wet hard- 

 wood forest, numerous extensive black 

 spruce bogs, few beaver meadows, few 

 black ash swamps along Gogebic Lake 

 shore. In nearly natural conditions. 

 Privately owned. 3 mi. south (boat), 

 Lake Gogebic Station. — L. R. Dice. 



Isle Royale. (A3.) About 200 sq. 

 mi., making up Isle Royale in Lake 

 Superior. Canadian coniferous forest 

 dominant. Hardwood ridges, swamps, 

 bogs, marshes, small streams, lakes, 

 bays, shore of Lake Superior. Moose. 

 Still in nearly natural conditions. 

 Mostly privately owned. 20 mi. north 

 of Houghton (c), camp.' — L. R. Dice. 



SELECTED REFERENCES ON THE ECOLOGY 

 OF MICHIGAN 



Adams, C. C, and others. 1909. An 

 ecological survey of Isle Royale, Lake 

 Superior. Mich. Geol. Survey, Lan- 

 sing. XV, 468 pp. 



Adams, C. C, and others. 1906. An 

 ecological survey in northern Michi- 

 gan. Mich. Geol. Surv., Ann. Rept., 

 1905, pp. 1-133. 



Clayberg, H. D. 1920. Upland soci- 

 eties of Petosky-Walloon Lake region. 

 Bot. Gaz., 69: 28-53. 



Cooper, W. S. 1912. The ecological 

 succession of mosses, as illustrated 

 upon Isle Royale, Lake Superior. 

 Plant World, 15: 197-213. 



Cooper, W. S. 1913. The climax forest 

 of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and its 

 development. Bot. Gaz., 55: 1-44, 

 115-140, 189-235. 



Cowles, H. C. 1900. Plant geography 

 of North America. I. The physio- 

 graphic ecologv of northern Michigan. 

 Science, n.s., 12: 708-709. 



Dice, L. R., and Sherman, H. B. 1922. 

 Notes on the mammals of Gogebic 

 and Ontonagon counties, Michigan. 

 Univ. Mich., Occ. Papers, Mus. Zool., 

 no. 109. 



Dice, L. R. 1920. The mammals of 

 Warren Woods, Berrien County, 



