Federal-state partnership supports fire safety in Minnesota’s Arrowhead region

Bob and Colleen Christianson cut the fire risk to their property last summer when they cut and mulched dead and dying balsam fir trees left in the wake of a spruce budworm outbreak.
“The biggest problem I was worried about was the fire danger. And if any fire got going in here, it would burn everything. Not only that, I wanted to improve the land for wildlife,” Bob Christianson said.
Spruce budworm is native to Minnesota, where 100-plus years of fire suppression allowed dense stands of balsam fir to flourish.

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