Old Growth White Pines Stand Amid Controversy The Chicago Tribune reports that the 49 acres of old-growth forest at Hartwick Pines State Park hold the only virgin pine trees left in what once was a land of giant conifers stretching from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. Some of the white pine trees are more than 300 years old and forest managers are readying a management plan for the Huron-Manistee National Forests (almost 1 million acres of public land east and west of Hartwick Pines) that environmentalists and loggers will likely both oppose. Read Battle brews over revived pine forests in Michigan in the Chicago Tribune Posted/updated Aug 15, 2005 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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