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Community Event: Prescribed Fire Field Trips
Prescribed Fire Field Trips on July 22: Morning & Afternoon
July 22 Prescribed Fire Field Trip Part 1 | @ 9:00-11:30 am
University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center | https://maps.app.goo.gl/
Visit tree-ring fire history and recent fire restoration sites at the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center, located on the Fond du Lac Reservation. We will host a walking forest tour with a mix of ecological and cultural perspectives from a small group of hosts involved in the work. If you need accommodations for this walking forest tour, please let the organizers know. There will be no bathrooms at the field trip start point! Please come prepared. Optional: Bring your own lunch to picnic and mingle with other attendees after the field tour.
July 22 Field Trip Part 2 | @ 1:00-3:00 pm | Wisconsin Point Lot 5 (at the end of Wisconsin Point by the Lighthouse)
In November 2025, a cultural prescribed burn was successfully accomplished – a collaboration between the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the City of Superior, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the Nature Conservancy. The project was informed by a research project pairing tree ring science with Indigenous knowledge. Join us in exploring the changes that ishode (fire) brought to the forest ecosystem and learn more about this special place and the people who steward it.