I used to live in Munising, graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1970. In the early 1900's when timber was king, huge white pine were clear-cut across the UP. The slash was burned, often with such heat that it actually burned a lot of the thin top soil off. Land speculators then promoted these land for farming. The unfortunate souls who did try their hand at grubbing out a living from the land soon abandoned their farms. The speculators did not tell them that the growing season is less than 90 days, and a killing frost can occur any month. The land is extremely sandy and any fertilizer will leach through the soil in a few weeks or even days. As some others have stated, the UP is known, however for very good quality of hay, albeit one cutting a year. Timber is still a major industry with pulp wood and very fine quality sugar maple veneer logs as second. However maple rotation is 125+ years. Recreation is the leader of the economy with hunting, fishing, sightseeing, and perhaps most importantly winter sports such as snowmobiling, skiing, ice fishing. Mining is still important with rich iron ore deposits, and recently sulfur coming from the Yellow dog Plains west of Marquette. The UP is one area of the US that has not , and hopefully will not, be overdeveloped like the rest of our country. The extreme climate, vast acres of swampland and remote location keep this one corner of the US much the way God made it (minus the great white pine forests).
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