{"id":277,"date":"2023-07-17T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/?p=277"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:56:47","slug":"july-11th-forests-and-fires-with-doug-lande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/july-11th-forests-and-fires-with-doug-lande\/","title":{"rendered":"July 11th Forests and Fires with Doug Lande"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 11th<\/sup> 2023 climate meeting with Doug Lande<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doug brings expertise of forestry and fires. Doug is District 2 Supervisor\/Secretary of the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). He has a good understanding of local and state agencies. He runs an off-grid solar home.\u00a0 Our conversation covered both the forest and the trees and how humans and other animals in northern Minnesota are affected by climate change. This is not a summary of the conversation but it is a summary of the useful contacts and links that were discussed.<\/p>\n

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CLIMATE AND WEATHER MAPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Climate Reanalyzer from the University of Maine is an excellent site<\/p>\n

World average temps showing record high temps early July<\/p>\n

https:\/\/climatereanalyzer.org\/clim\/t2_daily\/<\/a><\/p>\n

CR provides today\u2019s weather maps worldwide with many interesting parameters<\/p>\n

https:\/\/climatereanalyzer.org\/wx\/todays-weather\/?var_id=t2&ortho=1&wt=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Click on map to advance around the world, click on the topic on the LHS to select the parameter you want to view.<\/p>\n

Check \u201cdeparture from mean\u201d for temps and SST (sea surface temps)<\/p>\n

Note N Canada is hot, much hotter than average<\/p>\n

Note water around Greenland is cold from all the ice melt<\/p>\n

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SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT<\/strong><\/p>\n

SWCD website https:\/\/www.co.lake.mn.us\/soil-and-water-conservation-district\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Useful forestry video (5 mins) on spruce budworm, ash borer and more<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.co.lake.mn.us\/soil-and-water-conservation-district\/forestry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SWCD\u00a0 annual tree sale (bare root trees available in spring at Eveleth)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.southstlouisswcd.org\/annual-tree-and-shrub-sale\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Free white pines seedlings are distributed by Lake Co. SWCD once a year about the same time as the native plant sale and must be picked up in Two Harbors at SWCD.\u00a0 This is not guaranteed from year to year. \u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/northshorejournal.co\/business\/free-white-pine-seedlings-available-via-the-north-shore-forest-collaborative\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Assistance to manage your forested property in Lake Co or N St Louis Co<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.co.lake.mn.us\/soil-and-water-conservation-district\/private-forestry-assistance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nslswcd.org\/programs-services\/forestry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SWDC works with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), a division of the USDA, to provide financial assistance to landowners through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Many Lake County landowners (usually with properties 2+ acres in size) have benefited from this program.\u00a0You can apply for an EQUIP grant without a stewardship plan.<\/p>\n

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WILDLAND FIRE INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIREWISE – a program to help homeowners make their property more fire resistant<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/firewise\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Local Firewise contact for St Louis Co is Gloria Erickson gloria@dovetailinc.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For Lake Co Firewise \u00a0contact\u00a0 Aaron Mollin-Kling\u00a0\u00a0 651 387 1770<\/p>\n

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BOOKS on fire preparedness<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSurviving Wildfire: Get Prepared, Stay Alive, Rebuild your Life (A Handbook for Homeowners)\u201d by Linda Masterson<\/p>\n

\u201cCreating a Firewise Property\u201d a folder published by the DNR. Available for download here: https:\/\/files.dnr.state.mn.us\/assistance\/backyard\/firewise\/creatingfirewiseproperty.pdf<\/p>\n

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July 11th 2023 climate meeting with Doug Lande<\/p>\n

Doug brings expertise of forestry and fires. Doug is District 2 Supervisor\/Secretary of the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). He has a good understanding of local and state agencies. He runs an off-grid solar home. Our conversation covered both the forest and the trees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/elyclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}