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Purvis Lake Clearcut near Tower, MN, 1996 on state-administered public land
Minnesota's
White Pines
Our Vanishing
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Even the quarter-grown trees that are the mature trees of tomorrow are being cut, as was done here, because the money from cutting these small trees will grow faster in the bank than the trees would have grown.