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 



P.Y PRESIDENT THORNTON A. GREEN 



Association was really 

 formed in February, 1911, al- 

 though some preliminary work 

 had been done for several months be- 

 fore that. It was organized shortly 

 after the severe fire losses of 1910, and 

 the idea of having a private patrol was 

 favorably received by the owners of 

 several million acres of land. It was 

 thought possible to have an organiza- 

 tion for all of Michigan and Wiscon- 

 sin, but we have finally decided to limit 

 its operations, at least as far as main- 

 taining a patrol, to the Upper Peninsula 

 of Michigan. Few people realize the 

 extent of this territory. We have 

 eleven million acres of land, nearly half 

 of it being covered with a dense growth 

 of virgin timber, largely hemlock, with 



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a generous sprinkling of maple, birch, 

 ash, cedar, spruce, pine, basswood, elm 

 and balsam. Beech and red oak grow 

 in limited areas. Our soil varies greatly, 

 due to our having been visited by three 

 glaciers in past ages and to part of the 

 Peninsula having been covered at vari- 

 ous times by three great lakes, Lake 

 Algonquin, Lake Duluth and Lake On- 

 tonagon. As usual, the glaciers left 

 streaks of rather barren sand, which 

 was covered with pine half a century 

 ago, but are now desert wastes, or 

 nearly that. A large part of the terri- 

 tory is very fertile, however, and the 

 hemlock and hardwood stands are very 

 dense. There are numerous rivers and 

 some inland lakes. About eight per 

 cent of the entire district is moun- 



