PUT YOUR 

 CAMP FIRE 



OUT! 



For Help, In Case of Fire, Call Upon the Wardens of the 



NORTHERN FOREST PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 



MUNISING, MICHIGAN 



THE NORTHERN FOREST PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 



By President Thornton A. Green 



^^^^HIS Association was really a generous sprinkling of maple, birch, 

 C^) formed in February, 1911, al- ash, cedar, spruce, pine, basswood, elm 

 ^^^ though some preliminary work and balsam. Beech and red oak grow 

 had been done for several months be- in limited areas. Our soil varies greatly, 

 fore that. It was organized shortly due to our having been visited by three 

 after the severe fire losses of 1910, and glaciers in past ages and to part of the 

 the idea of having a private patrol was Peninsula having been covered at vari- 

 favorably received by the owners of ous times by three great lakes, Lake 

 several million acres of land. It was Algonquin, Lake Duluth and Lake On- 

 thought possible to have an organiza- tonagon. As usual, the glaciers left 

 tion for all of Michigan and Wiscon- streaks of rather barren sand, which 

 sin, but we have finally decided to limit was covered with pine half a century 

 its operations, at least as far as main- ago, but are now desert wastes, or 

 taining a patrol, to the Upper Peninsula nearly that. A large part of the terri- 

 of Michigan. Few people realize the tory is very fertile, however, and the 

 extent of this territory. We have hemlock and hardwood stands are very 

 eleven million acres of land, nearly half dense. There are numerous rivers and 

 of it being covered with a dense growth some inland lakes. About eight per 

 of virgin timber, largely hemlock, with cent of the entire district is moun- 



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