NEOPIT

Neopit, Menominee County. June 7, 1970. Altitude c. 6,000 ft. The small community of Neopit is surrounded by green forests in this view to the east. A mill pond, west of Neopit (lower), is formed by the damming of the Little West Branch of the Wolf River. A sawmill operation and piles of logs comprise a large cleared area on the community's west side adjacent to the river. The Menominee Nation's forest cover was spared from the clear-cutting which destroyed the state's northern forests during the 1860- 1920 period. Logging today takes place here on a managed basis, and the Menominee forest is therefore virtually the only major representative of what was the original northern mixed forest.