Seeing green is what we expect from our North Shore forest. Unfortunately, this time of the year, when deer see green they have only one thing in mind – eating young white pine and white cedar tree seedlings. North Shore private landowners can now help solve the deer browsing issue with a reduced-price tree fencing program from the North Shore Forest Collaborative (NSFC).
The NSFC’s two-thirds reduced-price fencing program is available for private landowners along the North Shore thanks to a generous gift from the Weekes Family Foundation. Applications for the program are available now at northshoreforest.org until March 15, 2019. Successful applicants will be notified shortly thereafter.
The reduced-price package is $30 and includes a 50-foot roll of 6-foot-high fencing along with ten 7-foot or 4-foot lengths of rebar and 30 zip ties for anchoring the fence to the rebar, for either five smaller tree fences or to form one large 12-foot by 12-foot fenced area.
Landowners are responsible for procuring their own white pine/white cedar tree seedlings at local nurseries. The NSFC recommends ordering trees now to assure availability.
This is the fourth year the NSFC is offering this program. In the first three years, 250 North Shore landowners planted and fenced over 6,531 white pine and white cedar trees on their properties.
The NSFC mission is: To revitalize and maintain a healthy and functioning ecosystem along the North Shore of Lake Superior with emphasis on restoring and maintaining native trees and associated forest communities.
For more information about the NSFC, visit: northshoreforest.org
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