Northlanders Protect Trees for National Public Lands Day
Volunteers Wrap Saplings to Prevent Deer Browsing.
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Scores of volunteers flooded the Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center, Saturday.
The volunteers spent their day wrapping white and red pine saplings in paper.
The practice, known as bud capping prevents the infant trees from beeing grazed on by deer.
About 30,000 trees were planted in the area this spring, after the mature forest was harvested last fall.
Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center employee, John Geissler said the center is hoping the bud capping yields a 60 percent survival rate.
That would mean 18,000 new mature trees.
The learning centers efforts were part of there recognition of National Public Lands Day.
