We are now in the high risk period of the year for oak wilt in Wisconsin...
Archive for category: Oak management
Getting to Know Your Forest Health Team: Brenna DeNamur
Incursions of insects and plants that are harmful to healthy, natural woodland balance, such as Emerald Ash Borer and Jumping Worms...
Messengers Matter
By Steve Swenson, Program Director As a teenager, Peggy Timmerman would have characterized her mother’s interest in nature as over-enthusiastic. Plants individually labelled with Latin...
Wilting Oaks Need Your Help!
Brown and dying oak leaves mid-summer in green and lush woods. Upon seeing this, landowner Dale Parker contacted the local DNR forester and heard the...
Upcoming Workshop: Oak in the Driftless
Landowners love their oaks. Majestic, sturdy, long-lived, bountiful, valuable, oak trees are admired for many reasons. What other single tree species in the Driftless means...
It Takes a Village to Care for Land
“This is a family recreational property, but it is highly degraded. It’s for the benefit of wildlife and we want to witness it, but before...
Oak Workshop: Oak in Southwest WI Faces Two Key Challenges
When landowners see big oak trees, maybe accompanied by some oak seedlings on the ground, it’s natural to assume that the oak in their woods...
He Said, She Said…about the Oak in the Driftless Workshop
Last month, on a beautiful Saturday, nearly one-hundred landowners gathered for the Oak in the Driftless Workshop in Richland Center, WI. By every measure, the...
The “Love Oak” Paradox
Interest in the Oak Workshop last month in Richland Center validated a long-held belief – landowners love their oaks. And for good reason: oaks are...
Stump The Chump: Which Resprout Is Best?
Most people think of seeds when they think of tree regeneration. However, trees have other strategies, like stump sprouting. When the above ground portions of...
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