Kehl Lake, a glacial lake in the northern Leelanau Peninsula of Lower Michigan ("the tip of the pinky finger of the Michigan Mitten").

Kehl Lake Preserve is owned by the Leelanau Conservancy:
"The trail leads into virgin forest, historically unaltered by human activity. 
The trees are not giants, though. Fluctuating water conditions never 
allowed any one species to dominate the landscape long term. Nonetheless, 
some of the eastern white pines you see from the trail are thought to be 
over 200 years old." 

Two types of ferns.

Lots of evidence of wind disturbance, both old and recent.

I visited this place on August 22nd. Tree species include white pine,
red maple, sugar maple, cottonwood, beech, hemlock and paper birch. The
white pine are not impressively tall, being generally in the 100-120
foot range, but many of them are thick, about 3 to 4 foot dbh. 

Most of the white pine here appeared to be open grown.	Dead white pine that are thought to have been used as marker trees by Native Americans 150 years ago.
Paper Birch.	Pinus Strobus, about 100 feet tall. There are some fat ones here, about 3.5 to 4 dbh but max heights aren't impressive. This area gets flooded often. Other species noted were red maple, hemlock, paper birch, cottonwood and beech.

Cutting of the trees may have been prevented by the frequent flooding of the
area. Many of the white pine have dead limbs on the trunks to within a
few feet of the ground, indicating that the area was relatively open
until recently. There was quite a few downed trees here, some of them
attributed to a strong windstorm last December.

I sent Ed some photos of this area for the web page.

Ernie