275 
years. On one of them the last fire was apparently in 1901. 
There the aspens form a low forest, beneath which fine young 
pines are growing vigorously. In a few years more the aspens 
will be dead, and the pines will grow faster ae ie better light. 
Possibly ten years will place this area beyond danger from 
h 
Th 
eee decayed and are See by a thrifty growth of healthy 
rush fire 
these hundreds of miles of aspen thickets, dreary, monotonous, 
valueless, but capable of eng millions of feet of the finest 
quality of white pine lum 
ne Condon in the es forests is somewhat different. 
py a better t f soil, with fair or good 
agricultural posites There is of c e little reason for 
using forest if a greater revenue c e obtained 
pies — tre But the hardwood forest, as we e, 
doe some sort of protection from an esthetic, scientific, 
mae oe ical pence int. Michigan's forests ma us 
and wealthy, and were the foundation on which scores of private 
its historic interest, or the Yosemite for its beauty, or the bison 
