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Bibliographic Notes A listing of sources used in making this book, further thoughts, and some recommendations for additional study. PREFACE http://dalefranz.org will post updates about hydrocarbon pressures on the forest. Kenneth Glasser, interview with the author, August 21, 2007. Oil and gas details from Peter Gustafson, interview with the author, August 22, 2007. The Pigeon River Country Association has created a 21 × 22 inch folding map of the area for printing in late 2007 with main roads and forest two-track trails on one side and High Country Pathway text descriptions on the other. It is available for purchase at http://www.pigeonrivercountryforest.org/. The state of Michigan at http: //www.dnr .state.mi.us/spatialdatalibrary/PDF_Maps/Management_Areas/Pigeon_River.pdf offers an online map showing wells, mineral rights ownership, political boundaries, and geographic features with zoom tool available. Joe Jarecki is quoted from the Pigeon River Country Advisory Council minutes of June 23, 1995. INTRODUCTION Lower Michigan terrain: In part from Michigan Department of State Highways and Transportation and Michigan DNR, “Milepost Interstate 75, the Michigan Bicentennial Highway.” Transcript of Joseph Sax’s talk provided by Sandra M. Franz to the Pigeon River Country Association. Pathway information in part from Jerry Grieve, “One of Michigan’s Best Kept Secrets,” Natural Resources Register (Lansing: DNR, 1984). Michigan law requires ORV routes to be posted with orange signs. Cheboygan and Montmorency counties allow ORVs on their county roads under certain circumstances; 305 Otsego County does not allow ORVs on county roads in the forest. They are permitted on the Michigan Cross Country Cycle Trail, which crosses the northeast corner of the Pigeon River Country. Snowmobiles are allowed on all county roads in the forest. Various sources, including Joe Jarecki, interview with the author, August 31, 2006. Chief Pokagon: Article in The Chatauquan, November 1895, quoted in W. B. Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon (New York, Outing Publishing, 1907), out-of-print copies provided by Edward Caveney Jr. and William Granlund. Also available at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Passenger pigeon history: Based primarily on A. W. Schorger, The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction (Madison: Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1955; rpt, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973); and Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon. John James Audubon quotations describing visit to Green River roost abridged from Mershon , as taken from Audubon’s Ornithological Biography. One million and one billion seconds calculated by Terence Dickinson, The Universe and Beyond, 4th ed.: Revised and Expanded (Buffalo, NY: Fire›y Books, 2004). Alaskan king crab: New York Times, October 1983, reprinted in Detroit Free Press, 10 October 1983. Lewis Perry, interview with the author, 1977. Land added to the forest includes 549 acres of former Black River Rod and Gun Club at the foot of the Tyrolean Hills ski area east of the north end of Sawyer Road, adding 1.1 miles of Black River frontage to the forest; and 226 acres of Kronlund property on Chandler Dam Road, with more than 2,100 feet of the Black River running through it. More than 12,000 acres have been added to the Pigeon River Country with the proceeds of oil and gas royalties since drilling began. The Natural Resources (Land) Trust Fund, created from royalties through the efforts of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs in the midst of the Pigeon oil controversy, by 2006 had spent $600 million to acquire and improve public land in Michigan. It took a revision of the Concept of Management in 2007 to put the additional land, including 5,000 acres northeast of Blue Lakes and 3,000 acres near Johnson’s Crossing, under overall management plans for such things as vehicle access and a ban on ORVs. Forest use: Ned Caveney, Tenth Annual Report, 1983, Pigeon River Country State Forest; Annual Report, 1982, Pigeon River Country Study Committee, Richard J. Moran, editor . Frederick Law Olmsted is quoted in Joseph L. Sax, Mountains Without Handrails: Re›ections on the National Parks (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980), a discussion of recreation pressure on natural lands. Black, Pigeon, and Sturgeon Rivers: Some details from Janet D. Mehl, Trout Streams of Michigan , vol. 2 (Lansing: Michigan United Conservation Clubs, 1983); “Pigeon River Natural River Plan,” June 1982, Division of Land Resources Programs, DNR; and David Smethurst interview with the author. NORTH WOODS “Way of Life,” chapter 43 of Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (New York: Vintage, 1972). PIGEON RIVER...

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