NEWBERRY FOREST MANAGEMENT UNIT COMPARTMENT REVIEW PRESENTATION

COMPARTMENT # 102 ENTRY YEAR: 2003

Compartment Acreage: 2045 County: Luce

Revision Date: 03/18/2002; Updated 11-16-2007 Stand Examiner: David Lemmien; Updated by Joe Durbin for the Red Pine Project Legal Description: T46N R11W, Sections 1-3, 11-13 RMU (if applicable): Management Goals: Maintain forest productivity, forest health, species diversification, and age class diversification through silvicultural and natural processes. The goals of the Red Pine Project include increasing the available fiber supply of red pine for forest products and adjusting/balancing the red pine cover-type age-class distribution by harvesting red pine timber stands in the 40-79 year age-classes and regenerating areas to red pine. Management treatments for the Red Pine Project will be in sections 1 and 2 and include four stands. Stands 1 and 3 will be final harvested, trenched and planted to red pine. Stand 2 is an upland brush stand lying between 1 and 3 and will be trenched and planted at the same time as 1 and 3 to create one 30 acre plantation. Stand 68 will be final harvested and allowed to naturally regenerate to a mixture of red and white pine and aspen. It will become part of a white pine and aspen complex with the adjacent stands. Soil and Topography: Rolling hills. Ownership Patterns, Development, and Land Use in and Around the Compartment: Compartment consists of a large block of continuous State ownership, which adjoins additional State ownership to the north and east and private forest industry land to the west and south. There are seasonal cabins on private lands throughout the area. Unique, Natural Features (include only non-site specific and non-sensitive information): MNFI states records for GBH rookery, osprey, and eagle. Also states potential for GBH rookery, eagle, osprey, red-shouldered hawk, goshawk, and rare rich mesic forest plants such as carex assiniboinensis, showy orchis, ginseng, and gobling fern. Archeological, Historical, and Cultural Features (include only non-site specific and non-sensitive information): None listed at this time. Special Management Designations or Considerations: Watershed and Fisheries Considerations: Streams are classified from First Quality Cold Water (FQCW) down to Second Quality Warm Water (SQWW). In this area, the FQCW means an excellent trout fishery, one that is supplemented by a Fisheries Division annual stocking program. These waters are generally the famous ones, but also include somewhat smaller waters that are capable of supporting the fish population density necessary to provide a superior angling experience. SQCW implies a cold stream that supports a

natural trout population, but is limited by either physical size or lack of spawning/foraging habitat. Its limitations mean that it will never support a heavy angling pressure and harvest, so Fisheries Division does not publicize the water. Local anglers, however, know what the streams support, and do fish them quite a bit. In-stream habitat is usually in the form of large woody debris, or downed trees. Fish need them because they provide protection from overhead predators and because they force water currents to scour holes under and around them. The holes provide more water volume in the stream, keeping it cooler, as well as giving the fish more volume to “hide” in. The woody structure also forces more eddy currents, breaking the “solid” water flow so that fish can get out of the current to rest. First Quality Warm Waters, (FQWW) are large, productive waters capable of supporting a good fishery for either warm-water species or cool-water species. In the Upper Peninsula, the designation generally applies to walleye, pike, musky or smallmouth bass waters. SQWW means small, possibly stagnant, warm streams that produce little to no actual fishery. Although small, their warm temperatures and generally high nutrient levels imply generally a higher productivity than the more “fishable” streams. Their value is attained from the production of forage that migrates downstream into areas of either cold-water or warm-water sportsfish populations. For that reason, they are NOT useless waters, and they should be protected somewhat for the aquatic invertebrate and fish forage that they produce. Fisheries Values Good-to-Excellent. Both Buckys and Brockies Ponds are stocked every year with brook trout. At this time, they are part of an experimental study involving coaster brook trout in inland waters. Silver Creek is classified FQCW, mostly due to the habitat improvement work that the high school students have done over many years. The small stream in Section 15 is classified SQCW. Wildlife Habitat Considerations: Compartment 102 is a mixture of upland aspen and northern hardwood habitat types, interspersed with small grassy openings, lowland conifers and plantation red pine and natural white pine types. A large grass-opening complex is located adjacent to this compartment to the north. Large blocks of the compartment are managed for shade intolerant, pioneer plant communities. These blocks in association with adjacent grassland areas make excellent habitat for a number of wildlife game species and non-game grassland species, specifically birds. Species utilizing this compartment include white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginiana), black bear (Ursus americanus), coyote (Canis latrans), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellatus), sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioecetes phasianellus), woodcock (Philohela minor), hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus), upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), American kestrel (Falco sparverius), yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) and American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). Compartment 102 lies within Sub-subsection VIII.2.1, Seney Sand Lake Plain, as classified by Albert’s “Regional Landscape Ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin: A Working Map and Classification”. Landforms of lacustrine origin typify the area. Broad, poorly drained embayments contain beach ridges and swales, sand spits, transverse sand dunes, and sandbars. This area contains the largest expanses of wetlands in the state, and many rivers originate in these. Presettlement vegetation consisted of marshes, peatlands, and low productivity swamps in areas of low topography, jack pine dominated the droughtiest outwash plains; and red pine, white pine, and bigtooth aspen occupied the seasonally moist lake plains and the transverse dunes. Almost all of the State’s patterned peatlands, a rare plant community, occur here. Common natural disturbances of the sub-subsection include fires, which occurred regularly in both the extensive peatlands and on the transverse dunes within the peatlands. Beaver floodings were also quite common within the peatlands. The average growing season ranges from 100-130 days but an extreme frost pocket is near the center of the broad wetlands in which the growing season falls below 100 days. Average annual precipitation is 32-34 inches and annual snowfall ranges between 80 and 160 inches, ranging from south to north.

Wildlife objectives in this compartment are to maintain the excellent habitat type diversity and inter-stand diversity by encouraging the retention of a variety of tree species in managed stands. Plant species diversity encourages wildlife species diversity and this is the ultimate goal. Retention of hard and soft mast bearing trees, trees with suitable raptor nest bearing structure, snags, wildlife den trees and coarse woody debris in all stands should be maintained or developed where deficient. Forested corridors should be maintained to facilitate movement from upland areas to lowland areas, and no cut buffers applied to streams, rivers and drainages to serve as travel corridors and to enhance and protect riverine, lacustrine and wetland wildlife and plant communities. Wetland features, including vernal ponds, should be protected from harvesting operations, and no cut buffers applied to water features according to BMP guidelines. Yellow birch, soft and hard mast producing trees, supercanopy white pine, hemlock, and other conifer components should be retained in northern hardwood stands to encourage species and structural diversity. Likewise oak, maple, beech and a variety of conifer components should be retained in pine stands for similar objectives. Mineral Resource and Development Concerns and/or Restrictions: Surface sediments consist of glacial outwash sand and gravel, postglacial allumium, peat and muck and an end moraine of coarse-textured till. There is insufficient data to determine the glacial drift thickness. The Ordovician Stonington Formation and Utica Shale subcrops below the Glacial Drift. The Stonington could be used for stone. Gravel pits are not located in the area. Potential may be good in sections 1 and 12. There is no economic oil and gas production in the UP. Vehicle Access: Good vehicle access into compartment from Bailey’s Trail and Silver Creek Road. Survey Needs: For the Red Pine Project, no new survey work is required. Recreational Facilities and Opportunities: The Silver Creek ORV Trail runs through the compartment. Brockies and Buckies Trout Ponds and the Silver Creek provide very good fishing. Hunting and wildlife viewing are other recreational opportunities that exist. Fire Protection: Additional Compartment Information:

The following 5 reports from the Operations Inventory System (OIPC) are attached: ♦ Cover Type by Age Class ♦ Cover Type by Management Objective ♦ Compartment Volume Summary ♦ Proposed Treatments – No Limiting Factors ♦ Proposed Treatments – With Limiting Factors

The following information is displayed, where pertinent, on the attached compartment maps: ♦ Base feature information, stand numbers, cover types ♦ Proposed treatments ♦ Proposed road access system ♦ Suggested potential old growth

StandCoverType Acres Age

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MgtObj Condition

MethodCut

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CulturalNeed

FDFStatus

NEWBERRY FOREST MGT UNIT Compartment: 102* RED PINE PROJECT * PROPOSED TREATMENTS

Entry Year: 2003

1 R6 11 46 50 immature final harvest 2 plantingred pine

Thinned as Silver Creek Red Pine (029-03-01). Completed 11/13/03. Third Row thinned. Red pine planted in 1961. ****2007-For the Red Pine Project, this stand will be final harvested, trenched and planted to red pine. This stand with stands 2 and 3 will create one 30 acre stand instead of three 10 acre stands.

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2 U0 8 50 nonstocked final harvest 1 plantingred pine

****2007-For the Red Pine Project, in this U stand, any merchantable wood will be final harvested and the site will be trenched and planted to red pine. This stand with stands 1 and 3 will create one 30 acre stand of red pine instead of three 10 acre stands.This stand replaces acres that will be allowed to naturally convert to white pine and aspen in stand 68.

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3 R6 10 46 50 immature final harvest 2 plantingred pine

Red pine planted in 1961. Thinned (3rd row) as Silver Creek Red Pine (029-03-01) Completed 11/13/03. ****2007-For the Red Pine Project, this stand will be final harvested, trenched and planted to red pine. This stand with stands 1 and 2 will create one 30 acre stand instead of three 10 acre stands.

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68 R6 10 46 45 immature final harvest 2white pine

961 red pine plantation. Good rows. Never been thinned. Not very tall but some self pruning has occurred. Natural mortality has left stand residual with good spacing. Eventhough the trees are only averaging two sticks, the stand is 40 years old and never has been thinned. Might as well go through and row thin and see what happens. Thinned as Silver Creek Red Pine (029-03-01). Completed 11/13/03. ****2007-For the Red Pine Project, this stand will be final harvested and allowed to naturally regenerate. Acceptable regeneration will be a mixture of red and white pine and aspen. It will become part of the adjacent complex of W and A stands. The habitat type for this stand is PArV.

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66M6

40S6

80L0

22A4

76M9

36A3

35A4

26F5

27A3

67W5

73W9

71W8

48P6

55A6

19A4

63A3

47L0

62M6

75M6

58M6

32M6

56M6

4A3

41P5

20N0

64M6

7A5

72R6

17A5

28A4

46S5

60H6

30Z0

6M5

29A3

53W9

74F4

23M6

24A3

50A3

61M6

49D0

78C5

18M6

54M3

68R6

25B5

14A6

45P5

31A365

Z0

3R6

1R6

43F5

70A4

21M6

77A6

11M6

57F5

51M6

13F3

34M6

2U0

69R6

5M6

39A6

59M4

79M9

33M9

44Z0

16A5

8Z0

52D0

15M6

12Z0

42V0

38Z0 37

A3

400G0

10Z0

9Z0

Silver Creek Rd

Camp Six Rd

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County Road 426

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County Road 442

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Silver Creek PondWolverine Lake

Brockies Pond

Buckies PondEast Creek

East Creek

East Creek

East Creek

LegendMiris CornersCounty Paved RoadPaved RoadIntermittent Stream/DrainStreamLakes and Rivers AllStand Boundary100 - Final Harvest116 - Final Harvest/Planting

Field Map

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Compartment 102T46N, R11W, Sec. 1-3, 11-13County: LuceUnit: NewberryYOE: 2003Acres: 2,045 GIS CalculatedStand Examiner: Jason TokarMap Revised: 12/03/2007Map Phase: Pre-review

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66M6

40S6

80L0

22A4

76M9

36A3

35A4

26F5

27A3

67W5

73W9

71W8

48P6

55A6

19A4

63A3

47L0

62M6

75M6

58M6

32M6

56M6

4A3

41P5

20N0

64M6

7A5

72R6

17A5

28A4

46S5

60H6

30Z0

6M5

29A3

53W9

74F4

23M6

24A3

50A3

61M6

49D0

78C5

18M6

54M3

68R6

25B5

14A6

45P5

31A365

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3R6

1R6

43F5

70A4

21M6

77A6

11M6

57F5

51M6

13F3

34M6

2U0

69R6

5M6

39A6

59M4

79M9

33M9

44Z0

16A5

8Z0

52D0

15M6

12Z0

42V0

38Z0 37

A3

400G0

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Silver Creek Rd

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County Road 455

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County Road 442

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Silver Creek PondWolverine Lake

Brockies Pond

Buckies Pond

Cover Type

LegendMiris CornersCounty Paved RoadPaved RoadIntermittent Stream/DrainStreamLakes and Rivers AllStand BoundaryA - AspenB - BirchC - Northern White CedarD - Treed BogF - Upland Spruce or FirG - GrassH - HemlockL - Lowland BrushM - Northern HardwoodsN - MarshP - Balsam Poplar SwampR - Red PineS - Black Spruce SwampU - Upland BrushV - Bog or MuskegW - White PineZ - Water

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Compartment 102T46N, R11W, Sec. 1-3, 11-13County: LuceUnit: NewberryYOE: 2003Acres: 2,045 GIS CalculatedStand Examiner: Jason TokarMap Revised: 12/03/2007Map Phase: Pre-review

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66M6

40S6

80L0

22A4

76M9

36A3

35A4

26F5

27A3

67W5

73W9

71W8

48P6

55A6

19A4

63A3

47L0

62M6

75M6

58M6

32M6

56M6

4A3

41P5

20N0

64M6

7A5

72R6

17A5

28A4

46S5

60H6

30Z0

6M5

29A3

53W9

74F4

23M6

24A3

50A3

61M6

49D0

78C5

18M6

54M3

68R6

25B5

14A6

45P5

31A365

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3R6

1R6

43F5

70A4

21M6

77A6

11M6

57F5

51M6

13F3

34M6

2U0

69R6

5M6

39A6

59M4

79M9

33M9

44Z0

16A5

8Z0

52D0

15M6

12Z0

42V0

38Z0 37

A3

400G0

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Camp Six Rd

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County Road 426

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East Creek

Silver Creek PondWolverine Lake

Brockies Pond

Buckies PondEast Creek

East Creek

East Creek

East Creek

Treatment

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Compartment 102T46N, R11W, Sec. 1-3, 11-13County: LuceUnit: NewberryYOE: 2003Acres: 2,045 GIS CalculatedStand Examiner: Jason TokarMap Revised: 12/03/2007Map Phase: Pre-review

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