Northern Michigan, known as Northern Lower Michigan, is a region of the U S state of Michigan.
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Northern Michigan, known as Northern Lower Michigan, is a region of the U S state of Michigan.
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Northern Lower Michigan is distinct from the more northerly Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale, which are located in "northern" Michigan.
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Southern Northern Michigan forests were primarily deciduous with oaks, red maple, shagbark hickory, basswood and cottonwood which are uncommon further north.
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Northern Michigan soils tend to be coarser, and the growing season is shorter with a cooler climate.
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The most populated city in Northern Michigan is Traverse City, with over 14 thousand inhabitants.
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Frederic, Northern Michigan is a particularly noteworthy center for cross country skiing.
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The State of Northern Michigan has designated Oscoda as the official home of Paul Bunyan due to the earliest documented publications in the Oscoda Press, August 10, 1906, by James MacGillivray.
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Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan is a community museum serving Alpena County and surrounding counties in the U S state of Michigan.
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Thousands of years before the French and English set up colonies in the region, Northern Michigan was seasonally inhabited by itinerant Native American cultures and succeeding tribes.
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Northern Michigan was the southern extent of the area scholars believed occupied by prehistoric inhabitants known as the Laurel complex.
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Northern Michigan sent coureur des bois such as Etienne Brule into the woods to establish relations with the Indians.
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Northern Michigan carried out the orders of acting Governor Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil and New France governor Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois.
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US settlement of the Northern Michigan Territory was punctuated by misunderstandings with Native Americans over land ownership.
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Early settlers came to the coasts along Northern Michigan, including fishermen, missionaries to the Native Americans, and participants in early Great Lakes maritime industries such as fishing, lighthouses, and cutting cordwood for passing ships.
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Early Northern Michigan lighthouses included Thunder Bay Island Light, Old Presque Isle Light (1840), South Manitou Island Lighthouse (1840), DeTour Reef Light (1847), Waugoshance Light (1851), Grand Traverse Light (1852), Tawas Point Light (1853), Beaver Island Harbor Light (1856), Beaver Island Head Light (1858), and Point Betsie Light (1858).
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The state of Northern Michigan, having created a Board of Fish Commissioners in 1873, stocked rivers with whitefish, black bass, and non-native species such as California salmon, California trout, German carp, and brook trout.
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The Board of Fish Commissioners created its first fish hatchery at Crystal Springs Creek in Pokagon, Cass County, Northern Michigan and shipped rail cars full of small fish to streams across Northern Michigan.
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Northern Michigan has arguably only one four-year university, Ferris State University in Big Rapids.
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Economy of Northern Michigan is limited by its lower population, few industries and reduced agriculture compared to lower Michigan.
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Northern Michigan has significant natural gas reserves along the Antrim shale formation in northern Michigan.
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Drilling activity peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, In 2014, Encana, the Canadian company who had been drilling in Northern Michigan, sold their mineral rights to Marathon Oil order to focus on more profitable operations elsewhere.
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Airports serving Northern Michigan include MBS International Airport near Freeland, Pellston Regional Airport, Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport and Alpena County Regional Airport in the Lower peninsula.
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Largest bridge in Northern Michigan is the Mackinac Bridge connecting Northern Michigan to the Upper Peninsula.
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Northern Michigan is served by one Interstate, and a number of U S Highways and Michigan state trunklines.
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Currently, Northern Michigan's railroad system is a skeleton of its former self.
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Northern Michigan has many tree types including maple, birch, oak, ash, white cedar, aspen, pine, and beech.
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Common mammals in Northern Michigan include white-tailed deer, fox, raccoons, porcupines, and rabbits.
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Northern Michigan is home to Michigan's most endangered species and one of the most endangered species in the world: the Hungerford's crawling water beetle.
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State forests in the U S state of Michigan are managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Forest, Mineral and Fire Management unit.
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Northern Michigan is in the Designated Market Areas of "Traverse City-Cadillac", "Alpena" (208), and some portions of "Flint-Saginaw-Bay City" (66).
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