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Photo Gallery - Porcupine Mountains, MI

Located on the shore of Lake Superior in western Upper Michigan, this park has 35,000 acres of unlogged sugar maple and hemlock forest, and has been a focus of Lee Frelich’s Research in disturbance ecology since 1981. Forests in all stages of succession and stand development are present in one of the few landscape-scale forest remnants left in the eastern U.S.

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan, contains 35,000 acres of old growth hemlock and sugar maple forests.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Giant sugar maple near Presque Isle River.  Photo by John Knuerr

Presque Isle River rapids.  Photo by Jörgen Sjögren.

Swedish moss expert, Jörgen Sjögren, inspecting Anomodom moss on a maple trunk.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Moss-covered basswood trunk.  Photo by John Knuerr.

Hemlock seedling browsed by deer.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Three hundred year old white pines on Overlook Trail.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Yellow birch saplings enter a gap caused by death of three ancient hemlocks.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Multi-age hemlock forest, trees from 80 - 550 years old.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Multi-age forest of mixed maple and hemlock.  Photo by Lee Frelich.

Ancient hemlock forest, Pinkerton Creek.  Photo by John Knuerr.
 

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