A CULTURAL FAULT LINE

Phlox, Langlade and Menominee Counties. August, 1968. Altitude c. 8,000 feet. The straight-as-an-arrow western boundary of Menominee County (Menominee Indian Reservation) extends away from the observer in this view to the northern horizon. The green forest cover of the reservation at right contrasts vividly with agricultural lands in Langlade County to its west (left). White pine and other species were never clearcut on the reservation during the great logging boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Areas of wetland jut out from the border into farm lands in several places. The light-colored surface of the eastern portion of the "Antigo Flats" outwash plain is at far upper left. It is a major producer of potatoes. The dark, wooded margins surrounding it to the southeast and north are terminal moraines of the Wisconsin glaciation.