Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
CONIFERS PROVIDE shelter for deer at an Upper Peninsula winter yard. The trees prevent deep snow from hampering deer movement.
MARENISCO - A Thursday, March 3, meeting in Marenisco will offer private landowners advice on how they can maintain or improve deer wintering habitat and outline cost-share programs available.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has scheduled the session from 6 to 8 p.m. (CST) at the Marenisco Township Hall, at 314 Hall St.
To avoid deep snow, deer migrate each winter throughout most of the Upper Peninusla. to deer wintering complexes, often called deer yards, containing dense canopies of conifer trees, especially cedar and hemlock.
The important conifer shelter reduces snow depth...
