The McCormick Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the

Upper Peninsula of Michigan The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by ...

. It covers an area of about and is located east of the Baraga- Marquette county line.Mohlenbrock, Robert H. (2006). ''This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests'', pp. 159-60. University of California Press. It is one of three such areas in the

Ottawa National Forest The Ottawa National Forest is a national forest that covers in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It includes much of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, as well as slices of Iron, Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette counties. The ...

, the others being the Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness and the Sylvania Wilderness. The McCormick Wilderness contains sections of the

headwaters The headwaters of a river or stream is the farthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or downstream confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river. It is also known as a river's source. Definition The ...

of the

Huron Huron may refer to: People * Wyandot people (or Wendat), indigenous to North America * Wyandot language, spoken by them * Huron-Wendat Nation, a Huron-Wendat First Nation with a community in Wendake, Quebec * Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi ...

Dead Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

, Peshekee, and Yellow Dog Rivers. Although the area was logged until the early twentieth century, conifers and northern hardwoods have now been developed.

Moose The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult ma ...

have been reintroduced into the area. The

McCormick family The McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia is an American family of Scottish and Scotch-Irish descent that attained prominence and fortune starting with the invention of the McCormick Reaper, a machine that revolutionized agriculture, helped b ...

of Chicago were the original owners, having acquired the tract in small pieces between 1904 and 1920. It was willed to the federal government in 1967.

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McCormick Wilderness
Protected areas of Baraga County, Michigan IUCN Category Ib Protected areas of Marquette County, Michigan Wilderness areas of Michigan Ottawa National Forest {{MarquetteCountyMI-geo-stub