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Broken trees in a Michigan state forest near Gaylord, in the northern part of the state. Forests across northern Michigan were impacted by a three-day ice storm in late March, which brought down tree tops left huge amounts of debris on the forest floor. “There's been previous ice storm events in other areas of the country, and even 20 years later, you can still see some impacts to those trees,” said Simeon Wright, a forest health pathologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
AJ Jones
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Harvest Public Media
A three-day ice storm in northern Michigan early this spring left 145,000 people without power, some for weeks. Three months later, clean-up efforts are focused on millions of acres of the state's forests, where broken and fallen trees could affect the forest's long-term health.
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