Star Tribune: In a clearing at the edge of one of the largest intact forests on Earth, Laura Kavajecz flits about like a tree fairy with a clipboard, slipping long mesh tubes over tiny seedlings. The sun beats down. It's buggy. The ground is covered with a tangle of downed trunks, stumps and severed limbs. Kavajecz, a graduate student, has a mundane but vital task: Protecting the fledgling trees -- 33,000 of them scattered across Minnesota's northern forest -- from the scourge of deer that await in the shadows.......
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Saving the great north woods
Posted by Star Tribune: Josephine Marcotty on October 20th, 2013
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