Where I am flying from used to be a very large tree farm. Back in the sixties as a cub scout each year we would spend a weekend out there planting trees and camping out. Great times. Over the years the gravel company next to the tree farm started buying up the land from the Great Lakes Forest Company. Not much left of the tree farm and the land the gravel company took over looks like the moons surface. Striped of all trees and the top soil. Pretty sad. The other side of the river has always been farm land and still is to this day.