In future years, the project will expand to include areas on Clough Island.Ī crew of WisCorps members will plant the trees. Seventeen species of trees will be planted on unnamed islands at Walleye Alley and North Duck Hunter Bays, a peninsula around Landslide Bay and in wetlands at the mouth of the Red River near Boy Scout Landing in the Gary New Duluth neighborhood. The five project sites cover just under 100 acres near the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota. Louis River Streambank Protection Area on Wisconsin DNR lands within the boundaries of the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and the 18 Ceded Territories of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. Tree species were selected based on their tolerance for wet or flooded soils, ability to withstand warming temperatures in the region, and the cultural uses or traditions that they support. The trees will maintain forests for birds and wildlife and protect islands and wetlands from erosion during floods.

As the trees are impacted by EAB infestation, these seedling trees will take their place.

The effort protects forested wetlands and manoomin (wild rice) restoration sites while reducing shoreline erosion as the emerald ash borer (EAB), a non-native insect, causes black ash trees to die off.īlack ash trees are abundant along the St. After crews removed invasive shrub species from the wetlands this past autumn, the effort kicks off three years of planting in a project led by the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Louis River Estuary over two weeks beginning June 12. Photo by Deanna Erickson, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve.Ī crew of WisCorps members will plant the treesĪ crew of six early career conservationists will plant 20,000 tree seedlings along shorelines and islands in the upper St. This forested island near the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth will be planted with tree seedlings that can replace black ash trees lost to emerald ash borer infestation. Ash trees are an abundant species in the St.

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