Hunting / Farm Land, Country Homes & Estates for sale in Baraga County, MI

The county of Baraga is located in northwest Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Baraga County has a land area of 898.26 square miles and a water area of 170.51 square miles. The county is ranked 78th in population for the state of Michigan. Because this county has some of the largest Lake Superior shoreline, the weather/winter and snow depths are strongly influenced. Roughly 84 percent of the county’s property is privately owned, with approximately 23 percent enrolled under the Commercial Forest Act and approximately 16 percent under public ownership (State or Federal). The land use and habitat quality for deer in Alger County ranges from lowland conifer and marshes to upland hardwoods, dry grasslands, and jack pine barrens, providing deer with fairly low to good quality habitat over most of this area. Agriculture has a relatively minor influence and is mostly a factor in traditional rural communities.

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