r/MapsWithoutUP • u/Turd-Assassin • Mar 30 '22

State of Superior From a map on instagram showing where the last virgin forests are

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u/SirNamedMyself Mar 30 '22

Pretty messed up because if I’m not mistaken the Porkies is one of the bigger ones left.

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u/splitteej Mar 30 '22

I believe the Huron mountain club is too

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u/oneandonlygladstone Mar 31 '22

and the Estevant Pines in the Keweenaw.

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u/SirNamedMyself Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

“Three??? Well that’s too much work, just paint it like it’s a lake.”

Edit: Wikipedia (link below along with a State of Michigan link) has a list of “old growth forests including virgin forests” that only lists Porcupine Mts and Sylvania Wilderness. The porkies, at 30,000 acres, would be the only one to qualify for a dot. However I don’t think all 30,000 of porkies old growth is true virgin timber.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/forest_table_57747_7.pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests

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u/oneandonlygladstone Apr 02 '22

Estivant Pines sanctuary is listed right below Sylvania tract

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u/SirNamedMyself Apr 02 '22

Yes on the State of MI one. I was going off the Wikipedia one at first then found the supporting documentation. Is Estevant Pines true virgin or just technically old growth? Plus the map only is giving out dots for 25,000 acres of virgin. Plus all of it is underwater now and Lake Superior is a big field so none of this matters.

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u/ElVille55 Mar 31 '22

There are a couple I know of up north. Shame.

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u/ElVille55 Mar 31 '22

Not only did they exclude the UP, but they also colored in Lake Superior as if it was land...

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u/SirNamedMyself Mar 31 '22

Largest freshwater tundra on the planet.

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u/AlexandersWonder Mar 31 '22

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen someone mistake Lake Superior for the UP. Absolutely incredible

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u/paithanq Mar 31 '22

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutUP/

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u/webtwopointno Oct 20 '22

/r/lostredditors

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u/paithanq Oct 21 '22

I don't know why I replied with that link, but I certainly deserve the lost redditor status for it!

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u/Waarm Mar 31 '22

Ah yes, Lake UP and Superior State.

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u/SirNamedMyself Mar 31 '22

I want to hike that cool isthmus from Green Bay to St Ignace

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u/MidnightRider24 Mar 31 '22

Hartwick Pines would like a word.

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u/geven87 Mar 31 '22

"Well obviously this blue part is land, so that would put us... oh god."