Loud Acres Farm open for fall season

Bill Cook, MSU Extension Forester/Biologist, retired MICHIGAN DNR – On my old farm there exists about four or five acres of a sphagnum-bedded stand of black spruce and tamarack.  Working that stand has generated some thoughts.  Some of these thoughts might be on the money.  Or not.   The black spruce stand runs around 130 square feet of basal area per acre, and was painfully…