BEMIDJI — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is employing salvage timber harvests at Lake Bemidji State Park, the Mississippi Headwaters State Forest and other Bemidji-area DNR-managed sites due to the June 21 storm.

“Salvage harvests set the stage for forest regeneration, and also capture some timber value and make use of a renewable natural resource,” Adam Munstenteiger, the forestry division's northwest region manager, said in a release. “What nature can do in a day shapes our forests for decades, but we’re giving them the best restart we can to help them flourish.”

A salvage harvest is a forest management tool used following storms such as the severe June storm to remove dead or damaged trees and put the wood to economic use.

The DNR deemed this to be the right move to p

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