Hello, everyone-
I didn't mean to take such a long break from writing. A "perfect storm" of a long lasting bug, end-of-semester work, and some heartbreaking news kept me away from the blog.
Here was the heartbreaking news: Two favorite patches of the Northern Highland forest are going to be logged.
The first segment is an isolated area of forest south of Grassy Creek. From my correspondence with the forester responsible for the timber sale, it isn't going to be a selective cut. Rather, some large percentage of the big white pines located in the Grassy Lake area south of Partridge lane are coming out. These are older post-clear cut trees, maybe 120 years old.
I will go into the details of my correspondence with the forester later, not of course that there is anything to be done to prevent the cut. But it will be a good "case study" in reality, and maybe we can use it to start changing how forests are managed over the next 50 years.
Those of you who ski Lumberjack trail will also notice a cut is scheduled in the beautiful big pines in the first part of the trail. I encourage you to ski or snowshoe the trail to see what it looks like now. You can email Jim Wetterau from the DNR James.Wetterau@dnr.state.wi.us to let him know what you think.
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