Hello from the Dietz family!
We’re thrilled to share that our planting crews were absolutely amazing - especially considering the complexity of this year’s project. In addition to coordinating multiple locations, the team planted more than 10,700 tree seedlings!
In addition to that good news, we’ve been very pleased with the seedling’s survival rate so far due to frequent, measurable rainfall.
The tree species that were planted include white pine, red pine, jack pine, bur oak, red oak, white spruce, white cedar, sugar maple, paper birch, balsam fir, choke cherry, and wild plum. Four thousand trees were planted by machine; the remaining 6,700 were hand-planted by a crew.
Protective tree tubes were also manually placed on the maples and oak trees to not only act as tiny greenhouses, but also to guard against deer, rabbit, and mouse browse on the delicate seedlings. These tree tubes are held in place with stakes.
Now, we just pray for a nice summer with regular rain showers!
Thank you to all our forest partners – your support truly helps us continue doing conservation work like this. 🌱
Our tree seedlings all came from the MN DNR Badoura Nursery.
white pine seedling
box of baby white pines
baby white pine
white spruce seedling
red pine seedling
bur oak seedling – they look like sticks, but you can see the bud at the very top. 🙂
light green tree tubes in the distance
Seedlings are looking great!
hand-planted white pine regeneration area
hand-planted white pine
rows of red pine, white pine, white spruce, and bur oak
Wild turkey nest. I took the picture and skedaddled so the mama wasn’t stressed.
gorgeous rows of baby trees
machine planting
4,000 seedlings in these 12 boxes
hand planted baby white pine
David and Anthony
two of this year’s awesome crew
