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Saw dozens of porcupine tracks & one dead & one live porcupine. The live one was eating bark from the top limbs of a very tall elm. The dead one had been shot from a maple tree & he had killed or ruined by girdling & puling the branches of 4 maples,  beech, & a basswood near where he lay. Many tracks go to the rocks as under old tree tops or roots & 2 tracks came down to the cabin where we are located. Many trees are seen in the woods killed or badly injured by them & fully half the maples have scrubby tops because the branches have been killed. 
Saw lots of rabbit tracks, red squirrel & Tamias tracks, a few fox or bobcat & mink and skunk & woodchuck, & Peromyscus & a few weasel tracks. There are said to be a few badgers here & some martin fishes. There are a few beaver cuttings around the lake just above camp.
Much timber has been cut here & run into Lake Superior. A great stack of cedar planks & posts are piled on the bank & the creek is full of cedar logs & ties & piling. It is run out to the lake & rafted to Munising. the shingle mills use any kind of cedar logs.