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Wisconsin. State Conservation Committee (1915-27) / Biennial report of the State Conservation Commission of Wisconsin for the years 1915 and 1916
(1916)
Peninsula Park, pp. 97-101
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98 WISCONSIN CONSERVATION COMMISSION The park is well timbered. The flora is not extensive, but the forests of white and red pine, hemlock, balsam and hardwoods, are beautiful. Several stands of beech show a forest type that is rather unusual. Dense stands of white cedar are found along the shore, while in some of the fields, C0 k Wm we._- _ I,._O_ - . A Z. -- - a A I_. C . - r.&r I __ -- S , t1- .1. -. RA1s t. GENERAL MAP OF PENINSULA STATE PARK juniper and more rarely the shrubby yew (Taxus canadensis) give an effect of formal planting. It is planned to not only make the fullest use of the park as a great pleasure ground, but also to so manage the wooded areas, totaling 2,770 acres, that there will be a sustained yield of forest products. A complete forest working plan has been prepared for the ensuing ten years. The . ."..... nit ."- -tC.'__ .U*_. Az .J
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