Beginning of State Reforestation
Inscription
A concern over the depletion of Michigan’s forests led in 1899 to the creation of a forestry commission. In 1903 the first state forest was set up by the legislature on cutover, burned-over lands in Roscommon and Crawford Counties. The same year also saw the start of organized forest fire protection and the establishment of Higgins Lake Nursery at its present site.
Thus began the program of reforestation in Michigan.
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More markers in Crawford
Chief Shoppenagon
Grayling, MI
Chief David Shoppenagon was born in Indianfields, a Chippewa Indian Village in the Saginaw River Valley.
Officer's Club
Grayling, MI
The Camp Grayling Officer’s Club and the land on which it is constructed were given to the state of Michigan by Rasmus Hanson, a...
Douglas House, The
Lovells Twp., MI
Canadian-born entrepreneur Thomas E. Douglas constructed a sawmill and general store in the logging community of Lovells around 1898.
Return of Kirtland's Warbler
Grayling, MI
The Kirtland’s warbler was first identified in 1851 from a specimen collected on Dr. Jared Kirtland’s Ohio farm.
Michelson Memorial United Methodist Church
Grayling, MI
In 1882, residents of Grayling built the town’s first church for the Methodist Episcopal congregation that had organized in 1879.