A young eagle flies from Grand Island in Lake Superior. On a northwesterly thermal he glides with little effort for 150 miles and sights the Keweenaw Peninsula jutting out into Lake Superior, an 80 mile spine of hard rock and at its end, the town of Copper Harbor.
A stand of ancient white pines provide a shelter where the eagle spends the night. Called the Estivant Pines, they are a remnant of a virgin forest; one of the very few stands of this age that remains after the lumber jacks cut timber to build cities in the mid 1800's. Below him the ground is covered with thick, fragrant pine needles that have accumulated for over 200 years.
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