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Michigan DNR marks Arbor Day with events throughout state

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has planned a full schedule of Arbor Day programs throughout the state on April 26-27. Guests are invited to join state park and visitor center staff for family-friendly outdoor programs that celebrate the many benefits of trees. Visitors can:

  • Discover some of Michigan’s biggest trees growing in some of the state’s grandest parks
  • Cut out a tree cookie
  • Take home a seedling to plant in the backyard.

Anyone who’s ever wondered what kinds of bugs are bad for Michigan’s trees (and how they got here) or how to identify one kind of tree from another will get the chance to learn all of this and much more at various DNR programs around the state. Details are available on the DNR website.

Update: Michigan apple harvest

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NPR:

An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but what do you do when there are no apples? It’s a question western Michigan’s apple growers are dealing with this season after strange weather earlier in the year decimated the state’s apple cultivation.

Michigan is the third-largest apple producer in the U.S. after New York and Washington, but the state’s apples will soon be in short supply. Now in the middle of harvest season, growers are picking only 10 percent to 15 percent of their normal crop.

Read the full story here…

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