My dad had 120 acre farmland in middle of Lake Michigan (Beaver Island). Did a few years of chain cutting young tree and juniper saplings down and let it be gr

My dad had 120 acre farmland in middle of Lake Michigan (Beaver Island). Did a few years of chain cutting young tree and juniper saplings down and let it be grazed by neighborhood livestock. Then we stopped clearing the saplings. Fifty years later, it’s all been heavily reforested, many with huge 40-45yo maple, birch, and douglas fir. Still have the old light aircraft photo of entire land. Looks nothing like Google Earth now. But it is a great hunting and forage (mushroom) land now.