Larry Czelusta News Today

CADILLAC — Northern Michigan has experienced an abnormally high number of wildfires this year and forecasters say persistent drought conditions could lead to even more in the coming months.

CADILLAC — Looking back on his career, Larry Czelusta said it all seems quite average to him.

Q: What causes some of the tree seedlings to be brown?

Local counties last year suffered prolific infestation of local trees by the voracious spongy moth caterpillar, formerly known as the “gypsy moth” caterpillar.

Forest management is partially science, partially art, partially personal and now partially something else. Climate change is part of our national dialogue. Sometimes debated and sometimes mutually agreed upon. In

The term “evergreen” can be a misnomer. Broad-leafed trees turn colors in the fall and have dropped their leaves by this time of the year. Evergreens keep needles throughout the

Much like the time it takes for a tree to grow, changes and improvements to forest management are slow and deliberate.

CADILLAC — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking people to hold off pruning oak trees from mid-April through the summer because that period is the key time for

It wasn’t that long ago when every county in the area was spraying thousands of forest acres annually to control the growing invasive gypsy moth population. Today, gypsy moth numbers again are on the rise after more than a decade of near dormancy; area residents will notice more of the insects in larger swaths of Northern Michigan this spring and summer, possibly for years to come. The annoying moths and the destructive caterpillars from which they derive no doubt will create headaches for...