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When fire changes the landscape
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Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.
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Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will award 21 cities and environmental groups between $800 and $20,000 to help regrow urban forests damaged by the emerald ash borer plague.
Logging and wood product companies are searching for skilled employees with many experienced foresters and other Northern Michigan workers retiring.
Ohio scientists say they’ve found evidence that the insect has made its way to a new host: the white fringetree.
Much like a weather-forecasting model, it calculates changes in air and soil temperatures and wind speed to help fire managers determine where the smoke is headed.
In the Huron-Manastee National Forest, crews responded to 81 wildfires, down from the annual average of 150.
He said Forest Service considered objections to losing public access to scenic Wildcat Falls, which the agency acknowledged give some visitors “a sense of place and attachment to the area.”
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The increased fire incidence is expected in August and September as a long winter and late spring delayed the fire season.
During the month of May, a different type of hunter takes to the Michigan woods. Their prey, the low-lying honeycomb shaped fungi, morels.