| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore. Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95.

This history of Michigan's state forests is actually two histories. The first and better-known one traces the events and people that gave rise to the Great Lakes states' "cutover" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This history, which has been chronicled a number of times and encompasses Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as Michigan, involves consequences within all three states and even features some of the same people, such as Filibert Roth and Gifford Pinchot, whose warnings about forest loss largely went unheeded. Michigan's State Forests briefly recounts the legacy of that era of exploitation, fires, tax delinquencies, and the pains of rebuilding a once-great forest in chapters 1 to 3. This is a relatively impersonal history because Botti and Moore have learned about these events from reading the accounts and biographies available in various archives and libraries.

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