Sunday, October 23, 2022

Planting Pines

Today my master naturalist chapter had a meeting at the Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center which is north of Duluth. As I drove up there the tamarack trees were dressed in the golden fall splendor. Today was an Indian summer day with a high of 71.

After the meeting we did a service project at the Boulder Lake Bear Paw campground. Specifically we worked at the Superior campsite.

A disease called Spruce tip rot had killed a wide swath of spruce at this campsite making it look less than superior.

Those white patches are where we stapled paper to the top of the red and white pines so the deer wouldn't eat the terminal end of the tree. I planted probably 30 trees myself. We had a dozen people so we maybe planted 300 trees in short time. It would be fun to camp here because it's free camping and you could canoe or kayak  right up to your campsite.

 

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