2011 YOE State Forest Compartment Reviews Schedule

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The Sault Ste. Marie and Naubinway Units schedule for 2010 Year Of Entry (YOE) was:

Sault Ste. Marie
Open House was held on September 18, 2008, with the Compartment Review on October 10, 2008.

Sault Ste. Marie - Naubinway
Open House was held on September 16, 2008, with the Compartment Review held on October 10, 2008.

The Sault Area is responsible for approximately 125,000 acres in Chippewa County and Eastern Mackinac County, including ownership on numerous islands in the St. Mary's River and Lake Huron. Most notable are over 47,000 acres on Drummond Island. Besides the main office located in Sault Ste. Marie there is the DeTour Office, a one-person station. Recreational opportunities managed out of the Sault Area include Lime Island rental cabins and campground, two additional campgrounds, ski trails, one of which is lit for evening use, over sixty miles of designated ORV and motorcycle trails, and countless miles of snowmobile trails. Lime Island's attractions include a boat harbor and restoration of a historic town site.

The Naubinway Area, in Western Mackinac County, consists of approximately 197,500 acres. Naubinway Area has many miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, with much of the 19 miles of contiguous, undeveloped shoreline under natural area or proposed old growth management to preserve the integrity of the shoreline flora and fauna. Only one mile of private shoreline separates two large contiguous shoreline parcels.

While the Sault Area has more widely scattered ownership, Naubinway's forest has more contiguous land holdings. The Unit contains a wide variety of upland and lowland cover types consisting of pine, northern hardwoods, aspen mixes and lowland conifers including cedar. The Sault land types are on areas varying from clay to rock; Naubinway's land types range from sands to muck. We are truly home to the "Mackinac Mix".

Our area has many pine plantations planted by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) in the 1930's and early 1940's which are being actively managed to increase age class diversity, and to develop products such as utility poles and cabin logs.

One such blueberry area is located in Western Mackinac County. A large bog area (1,100 acres) was once home to a commercial blueberry picking operation. Camps were erected; blueberries picked and shipped out by nearby rail. The area had been burned in the past (1966) to help perpetuate the blueberry plants. Ongoing plans to burn the area are in place. One-third of the bog was burned in 2000, with a nice crop of blueberries resulting.

Our Unit is home to several deer yards, mainly along the Lake Michigan and Lake Huron shorelines and US-2 corridor. The cedar stands offer yarding deer protection from harsh winter weather. Moose and wolves are also known to inhabit the entire Unit.

Wildlife Bureau is in the process of assisting in wetland restorations in and around Munuscong Bay in eastern Chippewa County for use as a waterfowl management area. They have also assisted in actively managing aspen areas for grouse habitat across the entire Unit.

Increasingly, we must keep an eye out for exotic and invasive species that pose a real threat to the health of our forests. Among other invasives, garlic mustard has been found in our area. This species will readily reproduce and out-compete native flowers in our forested areas. We have been working with MDOT to curb the spread from high use areas.

Beech Bark Disease (BBD) is very devastating since beech is a mast, or nut, producer and is often an important home for many cavity dwelling birds and mammals. Our challenge will be to identify resistant beech trees and promote other mast producing species to help offset the loss of these trees.

An isolated pocket of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) was found in Chippewa County in 2005. An eradication plan was developed and implemented, and the area is currently being monitored for more EAB signs. So far this isolated pocket has shown no more signs of EAB. But in 2007 EAB was found in Mackinac County, near Moran and St. Ignace. Mackinac County is currently under quarantine status for movement of Ash products and hardwood firewood. For more information regarding EAB go to the Michigan Department of Agriculture website at www.michigan.gov/mda. Just another reminder to not move firewood!

The Sault Unit is the only Unit in the state that boasts ownership on, and watersheds flowing to, three of the Great Lakes.

All State Forest Compartment Review maps and documents are drafts to be used for general planning purposes. Links to these documents will be removed after the review occurs.

For a map of the Sault Ste. Marie Forest Management Unit's compartments, view the Sault Ste. Marie Locator Map.

The Sault Ste. Marie Forest Management Unit has 2011 YOE Review packets available for the following compartments. The packets were posted 08/13/09, unless noted otherwise:

Compartment 006 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 006 Stand Listing

Compartment 015 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 015 Stand Listing

Compartment 030 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 030 Stand Listing

Compartment 034 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 034 Stand Listing

Compartment 044 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 044 Stand Listing

Compartment 047 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 047 Stand Listing

Compartment 103 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 103 Stand Listing

Compartment 109 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 109 Stand Listing

Compartment 112 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 112 Stand Listing

Compartment 118 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 118 Stand Listing

Compartment 130 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 130 Stand Listing

Compartment 161 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 161 Stand Listing

Compartment 175 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 175 Stand Listing

Compartment 190 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 190 Stand Listing

Compartment 199 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 199 Stand Listing

Compartment 201 Narrative, Reports and Maps

Compartment 201 Stand Listing

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