1. Menominee sustained yield forestry
Menominee Tribal Enterprises
Menominee Indian Reservation
Presented by Lawrence Waukau
Forestry Exposition 2015, Thunder Bay, ON

2. So what are we working for? The children

3. Menominee Indian Reservation in context

4. Menominee Indian Reservation, western border

7. Start with the rising sun and work towards the setting sun, but take only the mature trees, the sick trees and the trees that have fallen. When you reach the end of the reservation, turn and cut from the setting sun to the rising sun and the trees will last forever.
White pine 55” DBH

11. New small mill

12. Millworks Division

13. MTE Forestry Division Inventory Department
Silviculture / Harvest Preparation Department
Forest Development Department
Timber Harvest Administration
Forest Fire Protection
Forest Health

14. Unhealthy forests: Invasive insects, diseases, plants, worms
Natural disturbance (wind, native pests, flooding...)
Fire suppression
Climate change
Pollution
Unsustainable logging or grazing or browsing
Land-use change / fragmentation
Lack of forest management
Interactions of all the above

15. 1918 white pine blister rust
A Brief History of Menominee Invasive Forest Pests
white pine blister rust
The first major invasive forest pest here

16. 1935 Menominee Indian Reservation, Neopit
Joseph Dodge
Leo Waukechon
Planning disease management
1935 Menominee Indian Reservation, Neopit

17. 1933 Menominee Indian Reservation
Gooseberry (diseases alternate host) eradication crew
1933 Menominee Indian Reservation

18. Dutch elm disease

19. 1910 Cadillac, Michigan

20. 2012 Menominee Indian Reservation
Resistant tree
2012 Menominee Indian Reservation

21. butternut canker

22. 1995 Menominee Indian Reservation
Jim Frechette
State record elm
1995 Menominee Indian Reservation

23. oak wilt

24. 2012 Menominee Indian Reservation
42” DBH red oak
2012 Menominee Indian Reservation

25. gypsy moth

26. 2010 defoliation, ne Wisconsin
defoliation + drought stress
secondary pests = armillaria root rot, two-lined chestnut borers
2010 defoliation, ne Wisconsin

27. garlic mustard

28. Date unknown, Anoka Co. Minnesota
unusual dominance of one species
risk to the base of the enterprise, regeneration, also ginsing
Steven Katovich, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
Date unknown, Anoka Co. Minnesota

29. beech bark disease

31. Putting fire back on the landscape
Putting fire back on the landscape. 17 Apr Friday night’s controlled burn to control beech domination in the understory.

32. 20?? emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle, hemlock woolly adelgid, the list goes on and on…
But this forest has been resilient and will continue to be productive and functional with wise decisions and active management

33. Contact info:
Joe Besaw Marketing Lumber Sales Rep. Phone x1163
Millwork Division N3522 Cottage Ave P.O. Box 10 Neopit, WI (715)