Michigan Announces $150 Million Land Deal

12 September 2002 - 12:00pm

Michigan Governor John Engler and the Nature Conservancy announce a land plan that will protect 390,000 acres of wilderness.

"The land, nearly five times the size of the city of Detroit with tracts spread over about 250 miles of Lake Superior watershed, would be owned by the timber company -- keeping it on the tax rolls and preserving UP forestry jobs. It also would be protected from development, and an easement would keep the land accessible to hikers, hunters, anglers and snowmobilers."

Source: The Detroit Free Press, September 12, 2002
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