Check out this excerpt, which details an area in Northern Clare County Michigan.
http://bluelemon.me/2012/08/17/gerrish-and-his-logging-railroad-part-2/
This is one tiny little railroad in Clare County
To make it clear, here is a map of all the railroads in Clare County during the logging of the county.
http://michiganmarty.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/clare-railroads-web.jpg
Want to know what logging did to the landscape?
I'd recommend going to this website, http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/whitepine-logging.html
and looking at this picture http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/logsleds-1892.jpg
Didn't the deforestation there lead to the ultimate demise of the Michigan Grayling?