sige 
Ficure 1.—One of the medium-sized sawmills in the Upper Peninsula. 
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Daily capacity about 35 thousand board feet; annual output 
70 to 12 million feet. 
100 to 500 men to supervise the National and State 
forests and for general fire protection. As many 
as 5,000 or 6,000 have been employed recently in 
the Civilian Conservation Corps camps and on 
forestry work under the Civil Works Administra- 
tion, Emergency Relief Administration, and Works 
Progress Administration. 
The area of virgin forest yet remaining in the 
Upper Peninsula, according to the survey inven- 
tory, contains more than half the hemlock, sugar 
maple, and yellow birch remaining in the entire 
Lake States region; but the conditions which have 
favored preservation of standing timber in northern 
Michigan have undergone changes in recent years 
and can no longer be relied upon to safeguard this 
important resource. For one thing, this region 
FicurE 2.—Most pulp and paper mills are units of considerable size, employing hundreds of men. Picture shows mill at Munising. 
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