Unidentified workers and horses manage high grade yellow birch veneer logs at Birdseye Veneer Company within Upper Michigan National Forest. Michigan National Forest (1918-1962) became Hiawatha National Forest and Huron National Forest in 1962.
Aspen and paper birch pulpwood stacks in Ottawa National Forest, Michigan. Photos 2009-3080-01 through 2009-3080-107 were originally mounted in a leather bound binder with the gold embossed title, "Picture Memories of Region Nine." Region Nine, based in Milwaukee, WI, covered twenty states in the Eastern Region: Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey. Mr. Watts was Regional Forester of Region Nine 1936-1943.
National Forest Lumberman's Monument along Au Sable River Highway near Oscoda, Michigan erected in 1931.