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200-Year-Old Kalkaska Resident Cut Down

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IPR News Features
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August 10, 2012
Photo from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

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By Peter Payette

This week a 200-year-old tree in Kalkaska County was cut down. It was a sugar maple with a trunk three feet in diameter. Trees that old are sometimes referred to as witness trees because they are used in land surveying as reference points. Jerry Grieve is a state forester who says this tree was first marked in the original survey of northern Michigan back in 1850.

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