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The issueOak (Quercus) trees provide wildlife habitat, wood products, and many landscape benefits. Oaks occur on over 5 million hectares of land in the Midwest. Due to oak wilt, oak decline, and urbanization, the quantity and quality of the oak resource are threatened. We are working to reduce the impacts of these factors on the oak resource in the region.
What are we doing about it? We are measuring the effects of urbanization on oaks in the St. Paul–Minneapolis, Minnesota, area. We are working to control oak wilt.
We
are working
to reduce the effects of
oak decline.
For additional information on oaks, refer to:
Definitive Reference on Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks
by Paul S. Johnson, Stephen R. Shifley, and Robert Rogers. |
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