We are 3 hours from Chicago so about 2 hours from you. Sometime you want to visit, sent me a pm and I'll meet you at the end of the pavement. Actually pretty easy with a side by side or a quad. I'll drive up to the Nugent compound with my side by side on the trailer and embark from there.
We are far enough off the lakes that we didn't get in the logging blight of the wooden ship building era that decimated Michigan's hardwood forests. Not all wooded plots escaped the sawyers but some did and we were lucky enough to be able to buy it in a private estate sale. Some of the oaks are monsters. The canopy is way up there...
I always get a kick out of the amount of acorns littering the forest floor and the deer love them.
We get offers every year to selective cut. They all go in the round file.No need to travel to far north nice deer here in southern MI.Pics from my deer cams over the last few years..
