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Fire to return to Minnesota Point this spring
- Fire has historically shaped the pine forests of Minnesota Point and was vital to their ecosystem.
- After the 1854 treaty, the Anishinaabe practice of burning the forest floor to help blueberries disappeared, harming fire-dependent red pines and increasing fuel buildup.
- A prescribed cultural burn is planned this spring on 17 acres near Sky Harbor Airport to reintroduce fire to the area.
- The burn will occur on both the Minnesota Point Pine Forest Scientific and Natural Area and City of Duluth-owned land.
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Fire to return to Minnesota Point this spring
DULUTH — Fire shaped the pine forests of Minnesota Point. But the Anishinaabe practice of burning the forest floor to promote the growth of blueberries disappeared from Minnesota Point shortly after it was ceded in the 1854 treaty, harming the sandbar’s fire-dependent red pines and allowing vegetation to build up as fuel along the forest floor, according to a study published last summer in the journal PNAS. That is set to change this spring with…
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