Headlines from MyMinnesotaWoods.umn.edu
On November 20, 2009, a postcard was mailed to owners of 20+ acres of woodland in Itasca County. If you’ve just received a postcard and are looking for more information, you’ve come to the right place.
Naturally, the first step is to develop a Woodland Stewardship Management Plan for your land. A Woodland Stewardship Management Plan [...]
By Gary Michael, MN DNR – Division of Forestry
The Department of Natural Resource Division of Forestry’s Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) is undertaking a major shift in how it operates. For decades the FSP has been delivering free forest management plans to non-industrial private forest landowners. A recent change in funding will require the FSP to [...]
This month’s update from MyMinnesotaWoods.org is now available.
This month’s features:
Response: Dauerwald, ecological forestry, and late-successional structure
North Central Forest Management Guides: Bottomland hardwoods
John Latimer’s Northern Minnesota phenology report
Meet a Minnesota Logger: Tom Kruschek
Protecting tree seedlings from deer
Featured link: Tree ID resources from MNTCA.org
And, as always, discussion board, upcoming events, news, poem of the month, and a [...]
Back in June 2009, someone named Tom posted a great question about applying the Dauerwald concept in Minnesota. In a nutshell, the Dauerwald approach involves intensive management designed to maintain a high diversity of tree species and ages. This approach can be attractive to those interested in active management but less comfortable with more extensive [...]
By John Latimer, KAXE Radio, Grand Rapids
The last of the meadowhawk dragonflies will put in an appearance in early November. These small, bright red, insects are among the last to fly about in the fall. A warm day or two in the early part of the month will send them out in a last and [...]
Some MyMinnesotaWoods readers may be interested in this early December, 2009 event:
Growing the Bioeconomy: Solutions for Sustainability
Dec. 1-2, University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul campus
Hosted by University of Minnesota Extension and the University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment. Cost is $50 per day, $85 for both days.
Program [...]
The Wood-Pile
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
I paused and said, ‘I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther – and we shall see.’
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and down of tall slim trees
Too much [...]
The October 2009 update from MyMinnesotaWoods.org is now available at
http://www.myminnesotawoods.umn.edu/enews/09october.html
This month’s features include the following:
Video: EAB and your Woodland
John Latimer’s Northern Minnesota phenology report
Meet a Minnesota Logger AND an MFA member
North Central Forest Management Guides: Aspen
Minnesota moose population status: How you can help
Discussion board
Upcoming events
News stories
Poem of the month
Quiz of the month
To see this month’s [...]
Update October 19: This event has been rescheduled from October 21 to October 28, 2009. The text below reflects the change.
The University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) will be hosting a New Holland FR9000 Forage Harvester with an 130FB Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) Woody Crop Header on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, from [...]
Woods
I wish to grow dumber,
to slip deep into woods that grow blinder
with each step I take,
until the fingers let go of their numbers
and the hands are finally ignorant as paws.
Unable to count the petals,
I will not know who loves me,
who loves me not.
Nothing to remember,
nothing to forgive,
I will stumble into the juice of the berry, [...]