Bid to designate 50k acres in UP as ‘wilderness’ highlights tension over public lands

ONTONOGON COUNTY, MI — The Ehlco forest area features 16,000 acres of gently sloping land covered by hardwood and conifer trees, which is bisected by the Big Iron River and inhabited by deer, black bears and wolves.To the west, 25,000 acres in the Trap Hills features a boreal and northern hardwood forest with cedar swamps,…