At the Long Lake Conservation Center , Aitkin County Land Department staff are setting up demonstration forest management projects scattered throughout the 760 acre property.  Eventually we will have self guided tours, with information available on-line. 

    The public is welcome to walk through the land and learn about the forest.  We hope you’ll learn how forest management can be used to create different conditions similar to those in which our native trees and plants evolved.   We will have plant identification to educate people on forest plants and show different ways we read the land and listen to what it tells us.

    At this point, we are in the starting stages of building our demonstration forest.  We do have some important information we’ve already gathered  – please visit the links below to maps and files that you may find interesting.

            Forest Habitat Map for Long Lake Conservation Center
                  Forest Habitat Narrative

           FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Management Plan   
                   Long Lake Conservation Implementation

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