Releasing young pine trees for increased growth will be the focus of the this year’s Gunflint Green-Up scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8. The Gunflint Green-Up is joint effort of Gunflint Trail residents and business, area non-profit organizations, and government agencies focused on reforesting the Gunflint Trail area.
(The Quetico Superior Foundation, the publisher of Wilderness News Online, is a sponsor of the Gunflint Green-Up.)
The third annual Green-Up will focus its reforestation efforts on the removal of woody underbrush from areas where previous Green-Ups have planted young pine trees in the aftermath of the Ham Lake Fire, which burned 75,000 acres of forest in 2007.
The Gunflint Green-Up isn’t just hard work in the forest, however. This year’s event will also feature a welcome picnic on Friday evening, a talk by owl expert Bill Lane later that night, and a thank you dinner on Saturday. The weekend will also feature music by the Pincusion Warblers, Gerald Thilmany, and the Trail’s End Band.
For more information, check out the Gunflint Green-Up web site, HERE.