Not the same as the 50 year old woodlots most of us think of as forest nowadays.
I thought Proud Lake State Park was the largest uncut tract in Michigan (maybe just North Woods type forest). That is only 65 acres. If the sun is out you can see the lighter area beyond the trees, if overcast you could almost get lost there (My buddy Pooh says it has to be a hundred acre wood before you can actually get lost). If there is no one else around making people noises, even that little tract can be rather eerie. Strangely quiet, very still.
Yes, you could misplace yourself in a 1/4 section like that. By the way, your GPS wouldn't be worth a thing amongst those trees.
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Mark Cassino wrote:
Yeah, I know - not big at all. The area is claimed to be one of the few patches of Michigan forest that was never logged - but the trees don;t look all that big. But even in a small area like that, it's easy to spend a lot of time wandering around if you don't have a compass for direction.
- MCC
At 10:46 AM 4/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Mark! Compass? 325 acres? That's not very big. (Only about 0.73 of a mile square. Conversely it's about 0.50 of a square mile. A section, 1 mile by 1 mile, is 640 acres.)
You must be from the city! :)
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