Duck Lake area still recovering from fire

A wildfire near Newberry a few years back is providing fertile ground for forest managers to study recovery.

Excerpt: Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in the Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.

Forest managers will search for areas where a 2013 drought led to failed recovery plantings. In the slider’s 1983 image on the left, you can see where dense forest has been replaced by open areas visible in the 2013 image on the right.

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Source: Great Lakes Echo