
On the Ground: Spring Tree Planting Projects
It certainly hasn’t looked or felt like Spring yet here in Michigan, but it looks like warmer temperatures are just in time for this weekend’s upcoming tree planting events with MUCC’s On the Ground program! On Saturday, volunteers will be planting trees for wildlife at the Crane Pond State Game Area. Then, on Sunday, volunteers will be actively celebrating Earth Day by planting trees in the Huron-Manistee National Forest near Baldwin. This will be the fourth year in a row that OTG has hosted a tree planting event in the Crane Pond SGA, but the first for the Huron-Manistee National Forest area. See more details about these events and other OTG upcoming events below!
April 21, 2018 Crane Pond State Game Area
April 22, 2018 Huron-Manistee National Forest: Baldwin
MORE UPCOMING OTG EVENTS:
April 28, 2018 Keeler State Game Area
May 2, 2018 Elmwood Twp Mini-State Game Area (OTG Jr)
On Wednesday, May 2nd from 9am-2pm the Reese Out of Doors Club will be completing a wildlife habitat program for the fifth year in a row with OTG Jr. The group will be planting shrubs along a roadway in the Elmowwod Twp Mini SGA. The 600 dogwood and highbush cranberry trees were generously donated by Cold Stream Farms to make this project possible!
May TBD, 2018 Gwinn State Forest
On Saturday, May (date to be determined) from 9am-3pm we will be planting mast-producing trees in the Gwinn State Forest. Volunteers will meet by 9am at the Gwinn Department of Natural Resources office located on Highway M-35. The project site is located about 20 miles south of Gwinn off of County Rd 557, we will caravan from the field office. Fencing structures will also be placed around the newly planted trees. See more details and RSVP to volunteer here!
May 15, 2018 Tobico Marsh/Bay City State Rec Area (OTG Jr)
On Tuesday, May 15th from 9am-3pm, students from the Cramer Jr High Service Club will be pulling garlic mustard and treating glossy buckthorn in the Tobico Marsh area. This group removed over 30 bags of garlic mustard and other invasives from the area last year! The students will enjoy an afternoon of fishing after the habitat work is complete.
May 19, 2018 Grayling State Forest
May 30 & 31, 2018 Rose Lake State Game Area (OTG Jr)
On Wednesday, May 30th and Thursday, May 31st, we will be building brush piles and pulling garlic mustard with 100 students from Murphy Elementary in the Haslett public schools. This project is coordinated with Zsa Mahon and her 5th-grade classes with our On the Ground Jr program!
June 2, 2018 Pigeon River Country State Forest
June 9, 2018 Pigeon River Country State Forest
June 22, 2018 Gladwin Grouse Enhanced Management Site (GEMS)
MUCC’s On The Ground Program is supported by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division