Interesting in Warroad

[HD]

I found this, and found it interesting 🤔

There's a photo going around lately of a pine forest in the shape of Minnesota...and yes, it's real!

First, a bit of historical context. In 1988, when the shape was created, northwest Minnesota was covered by jack pine which grew up after the fires in the 1930s. Near the end of the century, forest management goals included breaking up that large expanse of single-aged forest to create younger, more diverse, multi-edged stands to create habitat and food for wildlife and reduce fire risk. To plant and grow these patches of younger forest, older stands had to be harvested.

Most of the timber sales set up at the time were simple rectangles – plots that looked more like North Dakota or Wyoming. But one DNR forester with a passion for cartography and flair for creativity wanted to do something a little different. Using a road map, a compass, and a hip chain (a device to measure distances), he set up a 23-acre timber sale in half a day and created an outline that may last more than a century. When harvest was completed in winter 1988, the shape revealed Minnesota in miniature.

Red pine was planted and when the surrounding mature jack pine forest was cut in 2007, the mini-Minnesota had become a visible, young, pine forest.

The shapely stand will be thinned every 5-10 years, a harvest approach to reduce tree density to allow more sunlight and promote healthy growth of the remaining trees. Since the cycle of final harvest and replanting of jack and red pine happen on different timelines, the “stately” borders should be visible for generations to come!

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[glenn57]

  thats is fricken awesome!!!!!!!!!1

thanks for posting that HD!!!!!!1

[tangle tooth]

Thank you. That is pretty kule.

[LPS]

I have flown over it a few times in a small plane.  Pretty cool. I think the guy actually got in some hot water for doing it.  At least that is the story around here.  What an accurate job he did. 

[mike89]

thats is fricken awesome!!!!!!!!!1

thanks for posting that JB!!!!!!1

yes it's very cool!!   and HD did good for sure!!!   

[glenn57]

thats is fricken awesome!!!!!!!!!1

thanks for posting that JB!!!!!!1

yes it's very cool!!   and HD did good for sure!!!   

:rotflmao:OOPS...fixed it. seen warroad and thunk of JB right away!!!!

[Jerkbiat]

I guess those of us up here just take it for granted. I have seen it a time or 2 flying over too. We drive thru there all the time when we are down in the forest.

[mike89]

never heard of it til now, cool stuff! 

[Jrasmussen]

That is awesome. I had never heard of this either, thanks for sharing.

[Steve-o]

I had to go find it on Google Earth.  It is 14.38 miles due south of Williams, which is about halfway between Baudette and Warroad.  It sits on a 330 acre parcel of land owned by the State of Minnesota.

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[Gunner55]

  Williams, that is very close to JB's neighborhood, I believe?

[Boar]

Yupnseen it! Pretty cool!

[Boar]

Yupnseen it! Pretty cool!

[mike89]

so I'm thinking the only way to see this is by air if you want to really see it...   

[glenn57]

Yupnseen it! Pretty cool!

yea you said that already!!!!!! 

[Boar]

Yupnseen it! Pretty cool!!

[glenn57]

Yupnseen it! Pretty cool!!

[Jerkbiat]

Williams, that is very close to JB's neighborhood, I believe?

Yes sir you are correct. Williams is our address. We are straight north of it on the lake.