DNR planting many trees

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources plants trees on state lands to reforest harvested areas, provide wildlife habitat, protect watershed values, and maintain the quality of state forests, according to the DNR.
Professional foresters determine the tree species appropriate for the site. Private contractors hired by the DNR do the actual planting.
“Herbicides will be applied to approximately 90 acres of state land in the Littlefork area to help establish new forests”, said Eric Buchanan Littlefork area forester.
The Littlefork area will be doing 75 acres of aerial and 15 acres of ground applied herbicide vegetation control to establish new forests.
Herbicide applications will begin approximately July 15th 2008 and end on approximately September 15th 2008. All sites treated with herbicides will be signed so that the public will know when they are on a treated site.
Buchanan said “Minnesota has one of the country’s largest state forest systems and also one of the largest state forest tree planting programs in the nation."
More than 8,000 acres of state forest lands are planted and seeded each year. This is equivalent to an area one-quarter mile wide by more than 50 miles long.
In the last 10 years, the DNR has planted or seeded close to 90,000 acres, an area of state forest land equivalent to a strip one-quarter mile wide by 560 miles long, stretching from Minneapolis to Cincinnati, Ohio.