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Forest at Big Bay
A forest is a community of much more than trees, but the trees play a dominant role in determining everything else that happens in that community. We know they are busy producing oxygen that allows us to breath — but there is so much more! Let’s spend time exploring individual trees in the Madeline Island Forest. Who’s who in the tree world, and how do we know — we’ll use leaves, bark and shapes to find out. What are trees providing for the forest system? Who lives in the trees, and what changes for the trees through the summer season? Are trees connected and can they communicate with each other? Let’s explore and find out! There’s a lot more going on with the trees than meets the eye at first glance.
Margie Menzies
Leader: Margie Menzies is Education Director for Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth. After years teaching in the formal classroom, this educator has abandoned the indoors for the great outdoor classroom. She is a veteran instructor in the Minnesota Master Naturalist training program and naturalist at Sugarloaf Cove up the North Shore in MN.
In this short film clip Margie Menzies explains the difference between green ash leaves and black ash leaves.
