The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) was founded in 1909.
Kikudome (student paper, 1950): His pasture #1 is a field about 100-200 yards by 150-200 yards in size. He says “this general area is often referred to, by the Station Ecology classes, as the Aspen Set # 7.” BVK has usually found that Aspen Set 7 refers to the forestry plot BS 40B, immediately to the NE of the field, but maybe it means the general area. Kikudome: “This particular area was once a farmland where potatoes were grown: the last farming being done in 1916. After the last potato harvesting, hay and clover were planted. A stream once flowed through the field, but now it is completely gone and the only indication of it is a shallow depression where the old stream bed once existed.” The stream (Van Creek) does run each spring but by summer is almost always dry.