To follow just one, however, we return to the Two-Hearted River Forest Reserve.Ī logging contractor would work with the landowner-in this case, a nonprofit-to harvest the trees. Those that end up as NCAA tournament floors also grow in several Michigan locations. Maple trees grow all over Michigan, and are harvested from a number of forests, public and private, to make wood products and keep those forests healthy. In fact, wood products account for nearly $14.6 billion in annual economic activity in the state, and the industry supports 154,000 Michigan jobs.Īnd it all begins with that super maple growing in the forest. And before they get there, they touch the lives and economies of multiple communities right here at home.

As the official flooring for the NCAA, as well as a number of NBA teams, Michigan maple floors made in Amasa are seen by millions of basketball fans around the globe every year. One of those many uses, flooring, has put Michigan maple products into a pretty high-profile spot. 'It's extremely hard, it makes good firewood it makes good flooring it makes good furniture it makes good tables it's got a lot of uses.' 'Those types of trees are kind of the bread and butter of Michigan,' says Scott Robbins, director of SFI and public affairs for the Michigan Forest Products Council. But as far as the many families and businesses supported by the wood products industry in Michigan are concerned, the life of that tree is just getting started. It seeded naturally, as is common in Michigan's prolific forests, and now it's nearing the end of its life in the ground. Also known as a northern hard maple, this particular tree has been growing, along with many of its peers, for decades. In the Upper Peninsula, not too far from Tahquamenon Falls State Park, in the midst of the vast, 23,800-acre Two-Hearted River Forest Reserve, a sugar maple tree grows.

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