{"id":460,"date":"2015-06-22T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2015-06-22T02:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T02:19:29","slug":"cross-another-one-off-the-bucket-list-hartwick-pines-state-park-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Cross Another One Off the Bucket List: Hartwick Pines State Park, Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Green<\/a>
Green is the color of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hartwick Pines has been on my list of things to do since I heard about it at a meeting of the Michigan Geographic Alliance back in the ’90s. Imagine a stand of virgin forest that somehow escaped the logging industry that put Michigan on the map.<\/p>\n

Hartwick Pines was named after Edward E. Hartwick, who died of illness in France in 1918. His wife, Karen, donated a section of unlogged forest to preserve his memory.<\/p>\n

\"forest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Canopy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The forest is in good shape and it is doing what forests do. As the trees reach the ends of their lifespans, they die.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A standing dead tree is called a snag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They serve as homes for birds, bugs and small mammals. Eventually, they fall.<\/p>\n

\"Returning<\/a>
Returning to the earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The nutrients return to the earth. New trees start to grow. Sometimes new species of trees take root. The forest continues.<\/p>\n

Along the trail, there is a museum dedicated to logging. One thing I learned that never occurred to me was that much of the logging took place in the winter. The snow made it easier to move the logs. I suppose the lack of mosquitoes didn’t hurt, either.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>
Big Wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When they would need to move the heavy logs about and they didn’t have snow to assist them, they used an implement called a Big Wheel to help them.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a><\/p>\n

There is also a chapel along the trail. oddly enough, it was so overcast that day that I could barely see inside it, in spite of the windows.<\/p>\n

\"Chapel\"<\/a>
Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I \u00a0had a lovely campsite at the park. I got it backed in on the first pass!<\/p>\n

\"Flo<\/a>
Flo through the trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The morning I was getting hitched up to head to the Upper Peninsula, the sun finally broke out.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The view from my door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Wildflowers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wildflowers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ferns\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a green and glorious day!<\/p>\n

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