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      <image:caption>This contemporary LIDAR imagery reveals the finest scale elevational changes. You can see the “kettles” in a line in the “SESE” section as well as a couple in the “GL01” section below it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Yawkey Forest Reserve</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yawkey Forest Reserve sign at the wayside by the Lake Katherine Bridge.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bearskin Trail at the back of the bay. Lake Katherine was once joined to Lee Lake on the other side by a marsh. The construction of the railroad grade changed that.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Remnant White Pines</image:title>
      <image:caption>Remnant old white pines in both parcels will be left to produce cones from which new pine seedlings will grow, and when they die, excellent habitat for birds and mammals that need cavities for nesting or shelter.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Advanced Regeneration</image:title>
      <image:caption>Advanced regeneration of white pine. These saplings will grow quickly after the timber harvest opens the canopy allowing more room and sunlight.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Orange Marked Trees</image:title>
      <image:caption>Orange paint diagonal slashes indicate a tree to be removed during timber harvest.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Aspen Snag</image:title>
      <image:caption>An old dead aspen “snag”. Woodpeckers have already created cavities. Aspen is not as durable as pine and hardwood snags so this tree will likely fall within 5-10 years.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Indicative of slightly richer soil on the north parcel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>White pine snag still retaining branches. Great perch sites for owls, hawks, and eagles. Will last for decades if the wind does not blow it over.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Rare Yellow Birch</image:title>
      <image:caption>A rare yellow birch tree growing among white pines and eastern hemlocks in a small enclave of coolness and shade next to the lake in the southern parcel.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Supercanopy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Supercanopy (growing above the tops of the rest of the trees) white pines in the southern parcel. These trees are preferred by bald eagles for perches and for building nests.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Updates for Northwoods Land Trust Tracts - Red Marked Trees</image:title>
      <image:caption>Red paint indicates the boundary for cutting. Trees behind the painted one close to the lake will not be cut.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A pine-oak dominated forest like this small area in the southern parcel is the desired future condition for both parcels, but with plenty of variety including areas where aspen regenerates, groves of balsam fir and small enclaves for eastern hemlock and yellow birch.</image:caption>
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