Showcasing the DNR: Michigan’s forest stewardship heritage

By Kathleen Lavey LANSING — At the turn of the 20th century, some of Michigan’s greatest conservation minds focused on a very important issue: turning vast, logged-over stump fields back into forests.     It wasn’t an easy sell at first.     Hillary Pine, a historian based in Crawford County at Hartwick Pines State Park – which features an old-growth white pine…