Timber management company plants 550,000 seedlings (AP)
Sun, 31 May 2009 00:36:32 Etc/GM
The Seattle-based company, which owns and manages about 7 million acres of timberlands nationwide, planted nearly 263,000 seedlings in the Escanaba area, about 174,000 seedlings in the L'Anse area and nearly 120,000 jack pine seedlings northwest of Marquette.
Jack pines are prime habitat for the rare Kirtland's warbler, which spends summers in northern Michigan and winters in the Bahamas. The songbird requires young, dense jack pine forests for nesting and raising its young.
Christie Deloria-Sheffield of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells the Daily Press of Escanaba that biologists hope Kirtland's warblers will discover and nest on the site in about six years.
Information from: Daily Press, http://www.dailypress.net
source: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090530/mi_seedlings_planted.html?.v=4