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The Mackinaw State Forest is a forested area owned by the U.S. state of Michigan and operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. It is located in the northern area of the Lower Peninsula within the eight counties of Alpena, Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Montmorency, Otsego, and Presque Isle. The forest is served by Interstate 75, U.S. Highway 23 (US 23), and US 131. ==Description== Most of the Mackinaw State Forest was logged for red pine and white pine during the golden age of Michigan old-growth lumbering, which ended about 1910. Much of the cut-over land was seen as worthless and was allowed to revert to the state of Michigan in lieu of unpaid property taxes. Second-growth trees found within the Mackinaw State Forest include the alder, aspen, paper birch, yellow birch, hophornbeam, sugar maple, balsam poplar, willow, balsam fir, hemlock, larch, jack pine, black spruce, white spruce, and northern whitecedar. The forest is managed today for second-growth logging, recreation, and tourism purposes. Starting in 1918, the state stocked part of the forest with a herd of free-range elk (''Cervus canadensis''). Today numbering about 850, the elk live in and around the Black River area where Cheboygan, Montmorency and Otsego counties come together. The Mackinaw State Forest is home to a rich diversity of animal species, including the Northern flying squirrel (''Glaucomys sabrinus''), American black bear (''Ursus americanus''), white-tailed deer (''Odocoileus virginianus''), wild turkey (''Meleagris gallopavo''), ruffed grouse (''Bonasa umbellus''), American marten (''Martes americana''), osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') and pileated woodpecker (''Dryocopus pileatus''). The Mackinaw State Forest is home to Michigan's two most critically endangered species: the Kirtland's warbler (''Dendroica kirtlandii'') and Hungerford's crawling water beetle (''Brychius hungerfordi''). Indeed, of the five known locations in which Hungerford's crawling water beetles have been found, two are within the Mackinaw State Forest, one along the East Branch of the Black River and the other in Van Hetton Creek. The Van Hetton Creek identifications are significant as they represented a new location beyond those originally identified when the Hungerford's crawling water beetle was categorized as endangered in 1994. This suggests that the rare beetle may occur in other sites as yet undiscovered elsewhere in Mackinaw State Forest. Fifty miles (80 km) of the North Country Trail run within the Mackinaw State Forest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mackinaw State Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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