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Controlling Autumn Olive Workshop and Demonstration
June 22, 2019 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Liberty Town Hall, 10510 M-55, Manton, MI 
Autumn olive is an invasive species that out-competes and displaces native plants. It can produce up to 200,000 seeds each year and can spread over a variety of habitats.  Growing in even the most unfavorable soils.  It reproduces quickly and with little effort at all.  Bird are quite attracted to the seeds, and will scatter them throughout pastures, along roadsides and near fences.  Even attempting to remove autumn olive by cutting or burning from your property can cause unwanted spreading as the shrub germinates easily.  Autumn olive is one of the most troublesome shrubs in Michigan.  In this workshop you will learn to identify and control autumn olive using chemical and non-chemical methods.  This workshop will be led by Vicki Sawicki, Invasive Species Specialist with North Country CISMA.  Fee for this workshop is $15.  Register by June 14.

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Forestry News

Looking at the News: Reason for Doubt 
​We have all heard reports of how the Amazon is being deforested at an alarming rate. Steve Wilent, Editor for the Society of American Foresters monthly journal, gives an honest look at the facts.
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What Hungry Deer Mean for Michigan Forests   Foresters and conservation groups say there are still far too many deer in northern Michigan, and they are creating severe problems for forests.​

Data Reinforces Value of a Consulting Forester on Timber Sales On per-unit sales (sealed bids in particular), sales that involved consultants exceeded the non-consultant sale prices by no less than 11%. The data also showed that consultants did equally well on lump sum sales, bringing an average increase of 12% on total bids. Not only did the trend hold over time, but it also held over various tract sizes, with consultant sales bringing higher total bids on all four separate acreage categories.   Posted by Joe Clark on October 3, 2018
Deer Can Be Too Many, Too Few, or Just Enough for Healthy Forests  Varying deer densities lead to differences in forests.   U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station 
​Hope for Ash?  by Colleen Otte "Kashian said he wouldn’t go as far as to say the ash and the borer have reached an equilibrium, “but we seem to be approaching some kind of balance with the bug at this population level and the trees hanging on.”  Posted on July 13, 2016 by Capital News Service
Michigan is preparing to enact interior quarantine due to invasive hemlock tree pest  A recent outbreak of the pest within the state has prompted new legislation which will restrict the movement of hemlock products within Michigan in an effort to control this invasive pest.
 Posted on February 28, 2017 by Mike Schira, Michigan State University Extension

Mighty American chestnut poised for return to America's forests  Scores of American chestnut seedlings growing in upstate New York are the vanguard in the restoration of what was once the most dominant tree in the eastern forests. The trees carry one gene, added by scientists, that makes them capable of withstanding the invasive blight that wiped out billions of their ancestors a century ago.    March 6, 2017    Source:SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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