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Walk With Me

30 Oct 2009 10:53:01 pm

Hey Everyone, this week why don't you come for a walk with me through a Spruce/Fir forest up by Red Lake. Its a bumpy ride, but I thought it was kind of neat.

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The Headwaters

25 Oct 2009 09:17:03 pm

We made a fun trip on Saturday down to Itasca State Park. Itasca State Park is better known as the headwaters of the Mississippi. It is where our nation’s mightiest river starts its journey to the gulf. Really pretty cool, to think about. Literally no bigger than a small stream. You can, and I did, walk across the river on a small rock damn that stretches across the 15 foot wide stream. Itasca also has the nation’s oldest red pine (tied with one in Michigan) and one of the nation’s oldest white pines both estimated at over 300 years old. The red pine was struck by lightning so it is missing some of its top. But both of these trees are really impressive. It is hard to comprehend the birthdays of both of these trees back in the 1700’s. We also got to climb the Itasca fire tower and check out the park from 100 feet off the ground. All and all it was pretty fun even though we had to dodge some rain showers. I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
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Here’s a funny one, one of the first spots we stopped to look out over Lake Itasca we noticed two pine squirrels running around. These squirrels usually get pretty close and aren’t afraid of humans. This one zoomed by us using the railing on our outlook platform as a runway. The picture is terrible, but it does capture the speed that these fur balls can obtain. SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The view after the squirrel attack

The Headwaters Official Landmark post type thing

The Headwaters

Me and Hannah at the Headwaters

Big White Pine…Little Man…

Good Old Fashion Red Pine

Lightening took a little off the top

Tammaracks by the Lake

Fire Tower

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Park to Park

25 Oct 2009 08:30:18 pm

This week was spent half at Glacial Lakes State Park and half up here at Lake Bemidji State Park. At Glacial Lakes we were removing more Buckthorn with brush saws and herbicide. It was some tough terrain to cover as we spent two full days on a lake shore that was very steeply sloped. We had one day of nice weather, and the rest of the week was pretty crappy. I don’t think we have had two days of sun in a row in over a month, but we manage. This week it looks like more of the same rain or snow showers all week.

Me in brush saw gear being dumb…

At Lake Bemidji State Park we were caging white pine trees so that when times get tough this winter the deer don’t have white pines on their menu.

This week we stay in Bemidji and do some more deer munching prevention with a different way to deter our four-legged friends, pig’s blood. I know it sounds weird, but I guess it works, I will have a better explanation this time next week hopefully with some good pictures.

Here are some tree pictures to round out the report from this week………..Take care people’s

Red Pine…

Birch…

Aspen…

Jack Pine…

Bur Oak…

Northern Red Oak…

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Pict Chuzz

18 Oct 2009 10:37:30 pm

Worked hard removing invasive species (European buckthorn ) this week. Here are some pictures of that. Also went for a drive to take in the fall colors, patrolled some forest roads and came up with a few good pictures. Hope you enjoy, have a good week.

Go Broncos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunrise...the sun went behind the clouds really fast after this, but I got this shot at Glendalough State Park on the shores of Annie Battle Lake.