Forests in Michigan, as well as forests throughout the states, are under increasing development pressure. Parcelization is the division of ownership into smaller and smaller parcels. Fragmentation is when the forest canopy is dissected for houses, lawns, driveways, and other infrastructure. Together, parcelization and fragmentation have impacts on forest ecology and forest biodiversity.

The parcelization and urbanization of forests bring with them serious consequences for nature and humans beings, although we probably see it as an advance; deforestation, logging, burning, seriously affect the vegetation, and the fauna of a forest, the human workforce, the deviation of rivers and the modification of natural zones seem to be a development of society, but in the long run it affects more to humans than to nature itself, because we are the ones who will not have natural lungs to breathe, and those who soon will be drowned with our own pollution, because there are no forests, no nature to purify the air we need.