[Land exchanges between private landowners and the state of Michigan], 1917-1939.

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[Land exchanges between private landowners and the state of Michigan], 1917-1939.

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Box 4, folders 7-9, Box 5, folders 1-5 of RG 62-16, boxes 6 and 7, series 64, 65, 67, 68, and 69 of RG 62-16, consist of correspondence and lists generated by the Department of Conservation and its predecessor agency, the Public Domain Commission. Letters (ca. 1930-1939) are primarily written by Wade DeVries, S.G. Fontana or F.P. Struhsaker, who was chief of the Lands Division for that time period. These files document land exchanges in the upper Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. Most of these exchanges were for land within the state forest and state park system. Quality of documentation varies. Sometimes records include applications only and no documentation of a completed exchange. Of particular interest, records of a land exchange between the Department and the Turtle Club Association fpr property in Montmorency County. These files date 1917 to 1930. Although not identified as such, area is within the Thunder Bay River State Forest (Series 69).

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Michigan. Public Domain Commission

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The Public Domain Commission was created by Public Act 280 of 1909. Its members included the Auditor General, the Commissioner of the State Land Office, the Secretary of State, and three governor appointees: one from the State Board of Agriculture, one from the Regents of the University of Michigan, and one from the Board of Control of the College of Mines at Houghton. The Commission had power and jurisdiction over public lands, forest reserves, and all the interests of the state in connection w...

Turtle Club Association.

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DeVries, Wade.

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Michigan. Department of Conservation

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The 1925 Clark-McNary Act expanded the provisions of 1911 Federal legislation creating the National Forest System (Weeks Law). It made it easier for the United States Department of Agriculture to buy land from those sellers whose property was located within the National Forest System. The act also enabled the National Forest Service to work with state officials in forest protection and reforestation efforts. From the description of Documentation relating to the acquisition of the Eas...

Fontana, S. G.

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Michigan. Lands Division

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Struhsaker, F. P.

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