The government is urging the public to stay away from closed forestry sites after reports of people ignoring safety warnings ...

The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture said timber harvesting operations to make safe storm-damaged areas within ...

Thousands of red pine trees had their branches and tops snapped off under the weight of ice from the late March storms.

"An important finding to inform plantation management is that larger islands of trees, particularly those over 400 m², are essential for endemic and forest tree species that struggle to find ...

Michigan Department of Natural Resources drone footage April 6, 2025, shows widespread damage from severe ice storms in Northern Michigan in late March. The thousands of snapped-off trees are part of ...

Second, the studied forest experiments involved planting trees of just one species. Although this is a common approach in commercial tree plantations, planting mixtures of species is preferred for ...

The forest’s red pine plantation looks like a line of sticks ... Some of Michigan’s oldest trees “fared pretty well.” An early inspection of the park’s Old Growth Forest found that ...

The findings, published in Forest Ecology and Management ... stand density as being between 177 and 214 trees per hectare for 45-year-old plantations. A notable advancement of this study is ...