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Township 6. 



Township 6 is the only township in the block where any considerable portion 

 of the forest has been lumbered. In the southeast corner is an area of some 2,700 

 acres lying in the watershed of the small stream tributary to Cedar River and 

 shown on the accompanying map by a dotted black line. This was cut over about 

 twenty years ago when the adjoining tract, Township 7, was lumbered. On this 

 area there is now a fair stand of young spruce and balsam which will some 

 day be of commercial importance. 



Another cut-over area consists of about 180 acres tributary to the Marion 

 River. The lumbering operations on both these tracts were carried on while the 

 township was in private ownership. 



The forest on Township 6 is better in character than that on Township 5. 

 There is a larger proportion of spruce in the mixture than on either of the other 

 townships, although the number of spruce trees per acre, ten inches and over in 

 diameter breasthigh, is less than on Township 41. The broadleaf trees on Town- 

 ship 6 are also better in quality than are those on the other townships, which fact 

 is of importance in view of the greater accessibility of a considerable portion of 

 this township. 



The spruce land type covers all the higher part of Township 6, constituting 

 seventy-one per cent of the merchantable area and sixty-four per cent of the total 

 area of the township. 



The swamp on Township 6 lies mainly in the valley of the Shedd Lake Inlet, 

 where the forest is made up of balsam, red spruce and black spruce. The balsam 

 does not make as dense a stand in the swamp on Township 6 as it does on 

 Township 41, and there are more open places. In addition to the areas just 

 mentioned, there are small bodies of swamp in the vicinity of Bear and Slim 

 Ponds and adjoining the open marsh near the Township 40 line. The swamp on 

 Township 6 makes up twenty-nine per cent of the merchantable area and twenty- 

 six per cent of the total area. 



The upper spruce slope type on Township 6 includes six per cent of the total 

 area of the township. Within its limits falls the ridge of Estelle Mountain, where 

 all the crest has been set aside as a summit reserve. The boundary lines of this 

 reserve have been drawn more with the idea of protecting the side of the moun- 

 tain seen from South Bay than with reference to the contour lines, although most 

 of the portion set aside lies above the 2,300-foot contour. The summit of the 

 Blue Ridge forms another large oortion of the reserve. The other bodies of 



