By the mid-19th century, timber shortages in the East and the settlement of the American West both had an impact on the pine forests around the Great Lakes. Over the next three decades, the lumbering industry boomed in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Newly established lumbering corporations purchased huge tracts of pineland and began cutting down the trees at a rapid pace. Timber was regarded as a valuable commodity by both the colonists and the later industrialists, but the latter group took a far more comprehensive and aggressive approach to removing trees.
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By the mid-19th century, timber shortages in the East and the settlement of the American West both had an impact on the pine forests around the Great Lakes. Over the next three decades, the lumbering industry boomed in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Newly established lumbering corporations purchased huge tracts of pineland and began cutting down the trees at a rapid pace. Timber was regarded as a valuable commodity by both the colonists and the later industrialists, but the latter group took a far more comprehensive and aggressive approach to removing trees.
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