Project Profile: Michigan State Lands - Enterprise Holdings...PROJECT PROFILE: 2019 PROJECT...

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Michigan State Lands Together with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, we are striving to plant Jack pine in this area on a large scale. Young Jack pine forests provide habitat for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler as well as many other game and nongame species. The 2019 plantings will also help stabilize highly erodible soils and provide a niche for sustainable forestry. MICHIGAN STATE LANDS April 2019 planting timeline 155,000 trees funded by Enterprise 9 th year providing habitat for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler Approximately 1.9 million trees planted in the state of Michigan REASON FOR PLANTING 90378001 Reestablishing critical habitat for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler Replanting native tree species to return this area to its natural state Stabilizing soils in this region to help prevent erosion PROJECT PROFILE: 2019 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

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Michigan State Lands

Together with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, we are striving to plant Jack pine in this area on a large scale. Young Jack pine forests provide habitat for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler as well as many other game and nongame species. The 2019 plantings will also help stabilize highly erodible soils and provide a niche for sustainable forestry.

MICHIGAN STATE LANDS

April2019 planting timeline

155,000trees funded by Enterprise

9th yearproviding habitat

for the endangered Kirtland’s warbler

Approximately

1.9 milliontrees planted in the state of Michigan

REASON FOR PLANTING

90378001

Reestablishing critical habitat for the endangered

Kirtland’s warbler

Replanting native tree species to

return this area to its natural state

Stabilizing soils in this region to help

prevent erosion

PROJECT PROFILE: 2019PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS