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Excerpt from Managing Red Pine for Poles in Lower Michigan One of the prerequisites for the successful management of red pine is a ready market for a variety of high value products. One such product with a potentially large and stable market is the red pine utility pole. While quality sawlogs may continue to be the most important primary product, the unit value of utility poles is higher than that of sawlogs and is second only to piling. In recent years both red pine and jack pine have been used for utility poles elsewhere in the Lake States but poles of these Species have not been produced or used in Lower Michigan. Some locally produced white-cedar is used, but the bulk of poles are pine imported from the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.