'Witness Tree' removed

Thanks for posting.

I remember visiting Hartwick Pines in the 1950's. It is the only virgin forest remnant of it's kind of the original north woods remaining in Michigan's lower peninsula. Sadly the "Monarch", the largest White Pine then in Michigan, has since died but there are plenty of White and Red Pines left to give a good impression of what the first surveyors and loggers saw.

http://www.michigandnr.com/publications/pdfs/wildlife/viewingguide/nlp/59hartwick/index.htm

I hope that the 1850 blazes from the sugar maple can be recovered and displayed at Hartwick along with the surveying instruments already there.