Prep your trees this winter

NORTHWOODS - Caring for your trees now could help keep forest healthier this spring and summer. Tree experts say that pruning during the winter poses less risk to your trees than during spring or summer. It will also help the tree maintain growth come spring.

"Folks are going to prune trees, it should be restricted to that period in which trees are dormant," said Steigerwaldt Analysis Operations Director Forrest Gibeault. "That dormancy period essentially is the same time when insects are very inactive and fungal disease is not going to spread."

Pruning oak trees can help to slow the spread of oak wilt disease into northern Wisconsin. The DNR has confirmed isolated cases of oak wilt in Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas County. Scientists have a plans in place to contain any new outbreaks of oak wilt.

Full story: WJFW

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