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The woods are heavy and almost untouched, mainly hemlock, norway pine, some white pine & scrub (P. virginiana?), lots of [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]] white & yellow birch, sugar maple, aspens, black ash, a few basswood, lots of Tamarec, cedar, spruce & fir, alders & willows, some mountain ash. Cornus canadensis, Wintergreen, arbutus & arctostaphylus are common.
Got one skull of wolf shot not long ago. Saw dozens of deer tracks, several porcupine tracks & one basswood bush lately eaten bare of bark, saw several skunk tracks & lots of white rabbit tracks. Saw a carcass of red fox.  Am told there are beaver in half a dozen lakes near here & in all the streams. There are some bear, mink, otter, martins & muskrats.