1922] HARVEY—PINE FORMATION 27 
the time of his intervention. Steps were taken toward the forma- 
tion of a company to conserve this area, and the owner, E. GoRDEN 
FILER, agreed to contribute a substantial part of the value of the 
standing timber. The State Legislature of 1915 sought to 
encourage the preservation of such tracts of timber, and passed a 
bill with the amendment to this effect, as proposed by Judge 
Fic. 1.—Upper Pines from west at edge of glacial upland: shrubby-herbaceous 
association of reforestation occupies foreground; this will terminate in black-white 
oak complex 
JEWELL. Unfortunately the Governor, through the mistaken 
advice of one of the State Tax Commissioners who did not under- 
stand the merits of the measure, misconstrued its purpose, and 
vetoed the bill. It was hoped that this tract would eventually be 
made a part of the Public Domain. Action was delayed, however, 
and Michigan’s archaic and prodigal method of forest taxation 
left no alternative. The Upper Pines are gone; a crime to be laid 
_at the door of our state officials. Nevertheless, the efforts of these 
public spirited men cannot be commended too highly, and should 
