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Points North: Canoe Country Reserachers Hope to Pass the Baton

Steve Apfelbaum has spent a lot of time in the canoe country, although most of it was for the birds. Since 1975, he and research partner Alan Haney have studied how plant and bird communities reassemble following a wildfire. “We’re trying to understand how fire affects the abundance and distribution of native plants and birds,” he said.

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