TREES

DNR broken bat promotion with Twins a big hit

At the beginning of the major league baseball season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) teamed up with the Minnesota Twins to launch “Break a Bat, Plant a Tree,” an innovative partnership that has given both sports fans and outdoors enthusiasts good reasons to cheer.

October 07, 2010

Autumnal brilliance arrives

The hillsides in and around Duluth are yellow, with bursts of orange and red, interspersed with the dark green of the pine trees and the duller green that lingers in the leaves of some deciduous trees.

By Jana Peterson , September 27, 2010

Discover Duluth: Gooseberry Falls’ Fifth Falls Trail

Encompassing five waterfalls and approximately 18 miles of hiking trails, it’s pretty safe to say that no one has the same favorite spot at Gooseberry.

August 09, 2010

Under the watchful boughs of a maple

By By Darrell Pendergrass, For The Telegram , August 06, 2010

Leaf blight takes toll on ash trees

For Fargo-Moorhead residents, today’s forecast calls for warm and sunny – with a strong chance of ash leaves. Foliage is falling from metro-area ash trees in far greater amounts than usual, as the disease ash anthracnose takes it annual toll on the hardwood. “Basically, what you see when you drive down some of these neighborhoods is it’s raining leaves,” Fargo City Forester Scott Liudahl said. Recent wet weather created ideal conditions for the fungus that causes the disease to flourish, he said.

By Mike Nowatzki , May 19, 2010

Leaf blight takes toll on ash trees

For Fargo-Moorhead residents, today’s forecast calls for warm and sunny – with a strong chance of ash leaves.
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By Mike Nowatzki , May 19, 2010

Northland Nature: Nature in the Northland awakens early this year

April is continuing the early arrival of spring that began in March. Last month ended with temperatures in the 70s and the new month carried on this trend with days in the 60s.

By Larry Weber , April 08, 2010

Northland Nature: The perfect time to get to know your native conifers

Some of our holiday traditions involve plants: for many, the poinsettia flowers and branches from holly — with its leaves and red berries — are an expected part of the season. Conifers play a role as well.

By Larry Weber , December 23, 2009

Status of EAB quarantine formalized; long-term restrictions in place

Minnesota agriculture officials have modified the state quarantine issued in Hennepin, Ramsey and Houston counties designed to slow the spread of the emerald ash borer (EAB) tree pest. A temporary emergency quarantine was established in June when EAB was discovered in or near these counties.

September 16, 2009

Wisconsin gets federal money to restore lake trees

The money will go to the Fish Sticks project, which aims to restore trees in shallow areas of the lakes.

By Associated Press , July 27, 2009

Planting a green welcome

Volunteers worked with city and state workers to plant approximately 700 trees, shrubs and other plants near the new “Welcome to Alexandria” sign along Highway 29 South Wednesday morning.

June 26, 2009

Ash borers distress tree lovers

With an estimated 900 million ash trees in Minnesota — second only to Maine — many more homeowners face the bleak certainty of losing treasured trees to the emerald ash borer, which has already killed millions of trees in 11 other states.

By Elizabeth Dunbar , June 15, 2009

Celebration with trees

June 11, 2009

State sets traps for gypsy moths

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is setting nearly 27,000 gypsy moth traps across eastern Minnesota this spring as part of its annual program to monitor Minnesota’s forests and urban areas for new infestations by the destructive tree pest.

June 06, 2009

Survey finds 59 trees in St. Paul with ash borer

ST. PAUL — A new survey found 59 trees infested by the emerald ash borer within a half-mile of the original infestation site in St. Paul.

June 02, 2009