Science | March 15, 2024. In Minnesota, Researchers Are Moving Trees Farther North to Save Forests. As the world warms, trees in such forests will no longer be adapted to their local climates.

The initiative is fueled by grants, including a major award from the USDA Forest Service via the Inflation Reduction Act.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) –The city of Rochester has acquired three grants that will allow for about 3,000 trees to be planted.

Using red maple trees as an example, Johnson said some years they will have 20% female flowers, the part that pollinates and creates seeds. In other years, the same tree might produce 60% female ...

MINNESOTA, USA — The dry September is a far cry from the record rain the state had to start the summer and that has caused stress on Minnesota's trees. Experts say trees are having a difficult ...

Boiling sap from maple trees at Wood Lake Nature Center, in Richfield, Minn., in 2022. JERRY HOLT •[email protected] (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

McDonnell and Matthew Julius, another SCSU biology professor and department chair, said tree farmers must also contend with more fungus and pest issues as Minnesota's winters are losing frost days.