Why We Burn Blueberries
Program Overview
Join Erik Carlson to learn about the reasoning behind managing Blueberry Habitat with prescribed fire. Erik will discuss how they manage this high-value resource with the application of research to the landscape.
Erik Carlson, of Grand Portage, enjoys the outdoors: sugarbushing, gardening, fishing, gathering birch bark, cedar bark, and spruce root, and hunting grouse and deer. Erik has been working in Forestry, Wildfire Division for 26 years. Over this time, he has studied Fire Effects and Ecology as it influences the habitat of the North Shore.
This talk is a part of our First Fridays series of community programs. Come down to the harbor starting at 5:30pm, gather around, and cook over an open fire as a community. Participants bring their own food; we’ll provide the fire and the pointy sticks. Sausages to steaks, pudgie pies to home fries, it’s all welcome. The fire will be ready by 5:30, followed by the presentation starting at 7pm.