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Concern over the depletion of Michigan's forest led in 1899 to the creation of a forestry commission. In 1903 the legislature established the first state forest on cut-over, burned-over lands in Roscommon and Crawford counties. That same year also brought the start of organized forest fire protection and the establishment of Higgins Lake Nursery at its present site, beginning Michigan's program of reforestation.
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